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Paranal observatory -Chile

author: S.Guisard/Novapix

reference: o-vlt01-00173

Image Size 300 DPI: 78 * 25 cm

360 degree Panorama of ESO-Paranal Observatory platform. The four 8m (UT) and four 1.8 m (AT) diameter telescopes of the VLT are all observing under the Milky Way arch during this very dark Southern hemisphere spring night. The large (LMC) and small (SMC) Magellanic clouds are visible to the left of the picture while another galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is also visible just to the right of UT4. Bright Jupiter is high in the sky. The picture also shows two 'astronomical' lights, the zodiacal light crossing the Milky Way center vertically (just at the left of the middle of the image, above AT3) and the Gegenschein, usually very difficult to observe, below Jupiter on the right hand side of the image.

Keywords for this photo:

2010 - ASTRONOMY - CHILE - DOME - GALAXY - GEGENSCHEIN - HORIZON - JUPITER - LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD - MILKY WAY - NIGHT - OBSERVATORY - PANORAMA - PARANAL - PLANET - POSTER - SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - STAR - STARRY SKY - TELESCOPE - VERY LARGE TELESCOPE - VLT - ZODIACAL LIGHT -