Science news articles about 'auxiliary telescopes'

... ESO's VLTI, using the 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes. "We were able to construct an amazing image, ... movable 1.8-metre VLT Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs). The ATs were combined in different groups of three ...

Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, is certainly one of the best astronomical sites on the planet. ... four 1.8-m Auxiliary Telescopes that together form the world's most advanced optical ...

... , the astronomers switched from the 1.8-m Auxiliary Telescopes to their larger brethren, the 8.2-m Unit Telescopes. With the interferometry mode, the resolution obtained is equivalent to ...

... our first try." All PRIMA sub-systems [3] have been installed successfully for use with two Auxiliary Telescopes and will now be submitted to intensive commissioning tests before being offered to the ...

... . With the AMBER instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, which combines the light from three 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes of the VLT, the astronomers obtained observations as ...