Lasers to the stars
ESO's Very Large Telescope sends up laser light to create an artificial guide star. The guide star is part of the state-of-the-art Adaptive Optics technology that corrects the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere to produce sharper images.
Credit:ESO/Daniele Gasparri (www.astroatacama.com)
About the Video
| Id: | paranal-gasparri-tl-25 |
| Release date: | 5 March 2019, 10:29 |
| Duration: | 06 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Laser Guide Star, Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
| Category: | Paranal |
