ESO 1.52-m telescope

This photo shows the ESO 1.52-m telescope, installed since almost 30 years in its dome at the La Silla observatory in the southern Atacama desert. The new FEROS spectrograph is placed in an adjacent, thermally and humidity controlled room in the telescope building (where a classical coudé spectrograph was formerly located). The light is guided from the telescope to the spectrograph by 14-m long optical fibres.

Credit:

ESO

About the Image

Id:eso9905a
Type:Photographic
Release date:2 February 1999
Related releases:eso9905
Size:1981 x 2776 px

About the Object

Name:ESO 1.52-metre telescope, Instrumentation, The Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument
Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Category:La Silla

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