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Paranal Observatory

(ESO Atacama observatory with ESO VLT)

Paranal Observatory is an ESO observatory-site (part of La Silla Paranal Observatory) on Cerro Paranal (2635 m altitude) on the Atacama Desert. Among the telescopes:

Plans are to operate the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) from Paranal Observatory which is under construction on another peak 20 km distant.


(observatory,Chile)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranal_Observatory
https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal.html
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100305625
https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/

Referenced by pages:
Atacama Desert
Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT)
La Silla Paranal Observatory (LPO)
NGTS
SPECULOOS
VISTA
VLT Survey Telescope (VST)

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