The VLT’s new deformable secondary mirror
Newly mounted in the “spider” frame at the top of the VLT’s Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun), the new Deformable Secondary Mirror is the largest adaptive optics mirror ever built and the heart of the new adaptive optics system that will enable to the telescope to produce even sharper images.
Credit:ESO/E. Vernet
About the Image
Id: | ann16078e |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 28 October 2016, 14:00 |
Related announcements: | ann16078 |
Size: | 5304 x 7952 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
Category: | Paranal |
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