The VISTA telecope - Chile
author: B.A.Tafreshi/Novapix
reference: o-vlt03-00107
Image Size 300 DPI: 116 * 116 cm
360-degree fisheye image (fulldome) of the Milky Way and the moon in the night sky of Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the driest places on Earth with Mars looking landscape, and home to Cerro Paranal Observatory. On the left is the infrared Vista (4.1 meter wide-field telescope for Infrared survey) and the farther peak shows the Very Large Telescope.