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English: The Milky Way spills across the night sky above the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. Commissioned in 1974, the telescope was once the largest optical telescope south of the equator and remains an astronomical powerhouse to this day. This photograph captures the open dome of the telescope as it gazes upwards at the luminous band of stars and dust lanes making up our galaxy. Like all telescopes at CTIO, the Blanco benefits from the crystal-clear observing conditions in northern Chile — as you can see from this star-filled image! |
Date | 1 July 2020 (upload date) |
Source | Gazing at the Milky Way |
Author | CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Tafreshi |
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Author | Babak Tafreshi |
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Credit/Provider | CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Tafreshi |
Source | NSF's NOIRLab |
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JPEG file comment | The Milky Way spills across the night sky above the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. Commissioned in 1974, the telescope was once the largest optical telescope south of the equator and remains an astronomical powerhouse to this day. This photograph captures the open dome of the telescope as it gazes upwards at the luminous band of stars and dust lanes making up our galaxy. Like all telescopes at CTIO, the Blanco benefits from the crystal-clear observing conditions in northern Chile — as you can see from this star-filled image! |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 13:56, 8 March 2020 |
Serial number of camera | 3000447 |
Lens used | 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8 |
Date and time of digitizing | 09:33, 18 July 2015 |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:56, 8 March 2020 |
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