YEPUN enclosure

The enclosure for the fourth VLT 8.2-m Unit Telescope, YEPUN, photographed at sunset on September 3, 2000, immediately before "First Light" was successfully achieved. The upper part of the mostly subterranean Interferometric Laboratory for the VLTI is seen in front.

Credit:
ESO

About the Image

Id:eso0028b
Type:Photographic
Release date:4 September 2000
Related releases:eso0028
Size:1600 x 1200 px

About the Object

Name:Very Large Telescope
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Category:Paranal

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