Visited Paranal observatory in Chile today for a peek at the VLT. My god, there's a lot of technology going on in these things. Laser driven adaptive optics, optical interferometry etc. Plus the 8m mirror was very impressive. 7/6 would go again.
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That is wonderful. How did you get to see it?
Ooh, that's on my list of things to see! The VLT has been the workhorse of ground based astronomy for decades now.
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Visited Paranal observatory in Chile today for a peek at the VLT. My god, there's a lot of technology going on in these things. Laser driven adaptive optics, optical interferometry etc. Plus the 8m mirror was very impressive. 7/6 would go again.
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