ESOcast 108 Light: First Stone Ceremony for ESO's ELT (4K UHD)

The first stone ceremony for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope​ has taken place at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, in the presence of the President of Chile.

The video is available in 4K UHD.

The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ESOcasts, but complement them with current astronomy news and images in ESO press releases.

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ESO.

Editing: Herbert Zodet and L. Calçada.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Hannah Dalgleish, Lauren Fuge, Oana Sandu and Richard Hook.
Music: tonelabs (tonelabs.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, ACe Consortium, Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser and Theofanis Matsopoulos.
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.

About the Video

Id:eso1716a
Release date:26 May 2017, 23:30
Related releases:eso1716
Duration:01 m 24 s
Frame rate:30 fps

About the Object

Name:Extremely Large Telescope
Type:Unspecified : Technology
Category:ELT
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