Star Trails Over Cerro Paranal Telescopes
by Juan Carlos Casado (starryearth.com)
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Star Trails Over Cerro Paranal Telescopes
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Juan Carlos Casado (starryearth.com)
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Photograph - Photograph
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Star trails over Cerro Paranal telescopes, time-exposure image. Below the star trails is a light trail (red) of a car on a mountain road below telescopes on the summit. Operated by the ESO (European Southern Observatory), the telescopes are part of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) interferometer, one of the most powerful telescopes in the world. Cerro Paranal is at an elevation of 2635 metres in the Atacama desert of northern Chile.
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August 1st, 2016
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