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VLT - Paranal Observatory, Chile

author: Alex Tudorica/Novapix

reference: o-vlt01-00224

Image Size 300 DPI: 113 * 46 cm

The four 8m telescopes telescopes, named Antu (Sun), Kueyen (Moon), Melipal (Southern Cross), and Yepun (Venus) form a very versatile observatory. They can be used as a single large telescope that adds (incoherently) the light from all four, in order to achieve the light gathering ability of a single 16m telescope. Also, their light can be combined in a coherent manner in order to achieve a resolving power equivalent to the one of a telescope with a diameter as large as the baseline between the units. Of course, all the telescopes can be used individually, which is usually the default mode of operation.

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2014 - ASTRONOMY - AT1 - AT2 - AT3 - AT4 - CHILE - DOME - GALAXY - INTERFEROMETRY - M31 - NGC 224 - OBSERVATORY - PANORAMA - PARANAL - POSTER - STAR - STARRY SKY - TELESCOPE - VERY LARGE TELESCOPE - VLT -