File:Fulldome view of the Very Large Telescope (VLT).jpg
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DescriptionFulldome view of the Very Large Telescope (VLT).jpg |
English: This fulldome view of the Very Large Telescope (VLT), at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, shows almost all of the telescope’s constituent units in one family photograph! ESO's VLT comprises four large 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes (UTs), all of which can be seen here and are recognised by their boxy appearance, and four 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs), two of which are seen here flanking their bigger relatives (both with their rounded domes open). Alongside their standard designations — UT1, UT2, and so on — each of the four giant UTs has its own name in the local Chilean Mapuche language: Antu (The Sun), Kueyen (The Moon), Melipal (The Southern Cross), and Yepun (Venus). The yellow laser streaking up into the night sky, launched by one of the UTs, creates an artificial star high in the atmosphere, fittingly known as a Laser Guide Star (LGS). This ‘star’ is part of the telescope’s adaptive optics system, which allows astronomers to compensate for the effects of atmospheric turbulence and achieve far clearer images. The image was created by ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek, and is a puzzle made up of numerous different pictures stitched together to form this high resolution panorama. Links Equirectangular projected version of this image Extended to 360 x 180 degrees (with black) version of this image |
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Source | https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1833a/ |
Author | P. Horálek/ESO |
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Credit/Provider | P. Horálek/ESO |
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Source | European Southern Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 13 August 2018 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 16:15, 15 January 2016 |
Date and time of digitizing | 06:44, 27 January 2015 |
Date metadata was last modified | 17:15, 15 January 2016 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:62e897bb-d41c-884e-82fd-a7102f93e78b |
Keywords | Paranal |
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Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany |
IIM version | 4 |