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Paranal Observatory, Chile 10/2011

author: B.A.Tafreshi/Novapix

reference: o-vlt01-00196

Image Size 300 DPI: 45 * 72 cm

At the beginning of dawn the southern Milky Way is photographed over the Cerro Paranal Observatory in the barren Atacama Desert. Bright stars Alpha and Beta Centauri are near the horizon and the Southern Cross (Crux) appear above them. Higher in the sky is the large red emission Carina Nebula. The two brightest stars of the Earth night sky appear in this view: Sirius (at top) and Canopus. The Large Magellanic Clouds is on the right, next to Canopus. With its dark, steady, and transparent sky, Paranal is home to some of the world's leading telescopes. Operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located on Paranal, composed of four 8-meter telescopes and smaller auxiliary telescopes, each 1.8 m in aperture (appear in this image), which are important elements of the VLT interferometer. October 2011.

Keywords for this photo:

2011 - ASTRONOMY - AT1 - AT2 - AT4 - CANOPUS - CARINA - CENTAURUS - CHILE - DOME - INTERFEROMETRY - LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD - MILKY WAY - NIGHT - OBSERVATORY - PARANAL - POSTER - SIRIUS - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - STAR - STARRY SKY - TELESCOPE - VERY LARGE TELESCOPE - VLT -