November 26, 2006
The Top 20;
a celebration of the first five years of the Very Large Telescope.
The Paranal observatory has four telescopes each with an 8 metre primary. Named from the Mapuche language the instruments are called Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun (Sun, Moon, Southern Cross and Sirius respectively). Image of the facility and a now outdated engineering page (see, it says so, right there on the page).
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Excellent post cheers
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Beautiful.
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Sweet! I might find an interesting way to use the full-rez .tifs in a Jitter patch. Ah, I should be working on Jitter stuff right now, but instead I gaze into the (virtual) cosmos.... Anyone who likes this will also appreciate good 'ol APOD.