Jewel on the Mountaintop

A short UHD video of a daytime scene around La Silla Observatory. At the peak (on the left) the ESO 3.6-metre telescope, now home to the world's foremost extrasolar planet hunter: High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a spectrograph with unrivalled precision.

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ESO/UHD Team

About the Video

Id:uhd_lasilla2_2014
Release date:14 May 2014, 18:00
Duration:14 s
Frame rate:30 fps

About the Object

Name:ESO 3.6-metre telescope, La Silla
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory
Category:La Silla

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