A 360 degree panorama of a unique cloudscape over La Silla.jpg
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What this Commons file record states
- File title
- A 360 degree panorama of a unique cloudscape over La Silla.jpg
- Artist
- ESO/F. Kamphues
- Credit
- not available
- Description
- A 360 degree view of a rare cloudscape over La Silla , in the southern edges of the Atacama Desert, home of ESO's first observing site. Here ESO operates three major telescopes: the 3.6-metre telescope, the New Technology Telescope and the 2.2-metre Max-Planck-ESO telescope. They are equipped with state-of-the art instruments such as HARPS, the best extrasolar planet finder in the world. The dome in the centre of the image belongs to the ESO 3.6-metre telescope, commissioned in 1977 and completely upgraded in 1999, and to which HARPS is mounted. At the far right of the image is the 15-metre Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST), built in 1987, decommissioned in 2003, and replaced by the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the 5100 m Chajnantor plateau.
- Capture date
- Date as the record states it
- 2009-12-03 23:18:30
- Width
- 28,186 px
- Height
- 4,183 px
- Megapixels
- 117.9
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Licence URL
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- Collection
- Featured pictures of landscapes
- Commons file page
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_360_degree_panorama_of_a_unique_cloudscape_over_La_Silla.jpg
- File URL
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/A_360_degree_panorama_of_a_unique_cloudscape_over_La_Silla.jpg
