Cerro Armazones at sunset
Amazing equirectangular panorama of Cerro Armazones in the Chilean desert, near ESO's Paranal Observatory, site of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Cerro Armazones was chosen as the site for the planned European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which, with its 40-metre-class diameter mirror, will be the world’s biggest eye on the sky.
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Credit:ESO/S. Brunier
About the Image
Id: | eso1018k |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 26 April 2010, 16:00 |
Related releases: | eso1018 |
Size: | 11811 x 4843 px |
Field of View: | 360° x 147.6° |
About the Object
Name: | Cerro Paranal, Extremely Large Telescope, Panorama |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
Category: | 360 Panorama ELT Paranal |
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