Over 70% complete, our ELT is glowing in the #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile, surrounded by massive cranes hard at work to get this telescope up and running.
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Over 70% complete, our ELT is glowing in the #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile, surrounded by massive cranes hard at work to get this telescope up and running.
With the first light planned for the end of the decade, the ELT and its groundbreaking 39-metre main mirror will take on some of the biggest challenges in #astronomy and, ultimately, help us understand our place in the #Universe.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2617a/
ESO/G. Vecchia#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science
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Over 70% complete, our ELT is glowing in the #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile, surrounded by massive cranes hard at work to get this telescope up and running.
With the first light planned for the end of the decade, the ELT and its groundbreaking 39-metre main mirror will take on some of the biggest challenges in #astronomy and, ultimately, help us understand our place in the #Universe.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2617a/
ESO/G. Vecchia#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science
@esoastronomy growing up in the 80s, fascinated by asteonomy, spending many nights with our schools telescope, the 5m Telescope on Mt. Palomar has been the pinnacle of optical instruments.
How far has science got from there. I still can't believe it. JWST. Rubin Observatory. This will get ready in my lifetime. I am so curious.
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@esoastronomy growing up in the 80s, fascinated by asteonomy, spending many nights with our schools telescope, the 5m Telescope on Mt. Palomar has been the pinnacle of optical instruments.
How far has science got from there. I still can't believe it. JWST. Rubin Observatory. This will get ready in my lifetime. I am so curious.
@Reinald @esoastronomy same here. What is really mind blowing is the image processing technology allows me to capture images close to those from Palomar with a 6 inch SCT paired with a photographic sensor plus some neat processing tricks.
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@Reinald @esoastronomy same here. What is really mind blowing is the image processing technology allows me to capture images close to those from Palomar with a 6 inch SCT paired with a photographic sensor plus some neat processing tricks.
@jguillaumes which software stack do you use?
I try to collect as much FOSS available somewhere as possible during the #guixastroupdate monthly refresh cycle, it would be great to attract more astro enthusiasts to #reproducibleresearch topic
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@jguillaumes which software stack do you use?
I try to collect as much FOSS available somewhere as possible during the #guixastroupdate monthly refresh cycle, it would be great to attract more astro enthusiasts to #reproducibleresearch topic@sharlatan for deep space, I use siril. For planetary, registax. But I have the hobby on hold… haven’t had a good session in the last 2 years. I’m getting lazy and I’ll probably get a robo-scope -vaonis or seestar- to do the work for me.
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@Reinald @esoastronomy same here. What is really mind blowing is the image processing technology allows me to capture images close to those from Palomar with a 6 inch SCT paired with a photographic sensor plus some neat processing tricks.
@jguillaumes @esoastronomy absolutely. Stacking software and affordable sensor technology brought citizen science to another level as well.
I recall sweating blood when developing 30min long exposures in Ilford Tecnical Pan F, not to fuck up development. Usually it was fucked up nevertheless on tracking issues... -
@Roblugton Not at all, the cranes are also very impressive on their own!
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Over 70% complete, our ELT is glowing in the #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile, surrounded by massive cranes hard at work to get this telescope up and running.
With the first light planned for the end of the decade, the ELT and its groundbreaking 39-metre main mirror will take on some of the biggest challenges in #astronomy and, ultimately, help us understand our place in the #Universe.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2617a/
ESO/G. Vecchia#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science
@esoastronomy this looks so cool!
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