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Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍

In case you do not remember how the #night #sky was before all the #StarLink / #SpaceX #satellites, here is one of the #timelapse I did 5 years ago from the #ESO #LaSilla #observatory, in #Chile

The #video lasts 1 minute but it corresponds to 10 hours.

The big dish is a decommissioned radio #telescope. In the background there is the 3.6-m telescope with its #exoplanet-hunting instrument #HARPS

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJVKKSiIjlo

credits: A. Santerne / ESO

Outstanding shot of the #Sun rising behind ESO's Extremely Large #Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. The dome is about 80 m tall; look at the size of those cranes! The ELT will have a 39 m primary mirror — the largest optical-infrared telescope in the world.

More info: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2336a/

📷 E. Garcés/ESO. Ack.: N. Dubost

#astrodon #astronomy #space

The huge orange disc of the Sun dominates the picture against a black background, due to the way the image was taken. The Sun has nearly fully risen above the ground and is just cut off from being a perfect circle at the bottom. Much like shadow puppets on a screen, the dark outline of the criss-crossed steel structure of the ELT dome is positioned at the centre of the Sun. There are large cranes leaning in over the central dome, also only distinguishable as dark outlines.

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