Daylight Panoramic view from Roque de Los Muchachos Telescopes
by Year: 2013 | La Palma Canary Dark Sky Reserve | Panoramic & Wide Views | Professional Observatories in the World
A panoramic view with the mountain of Roque de Los Muchachos, in La Palma Canary island, where stands a huge complex with 15 telescopes, some of the largest telescopes in the world – many of them visible in the background – from 19 nations, that are using the best night sky in Europe to explore the cosmos. From Right to Left we can see the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), The MAGIC I and II telescopes (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes), Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), Dutch Open Telescope (DOT), Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) , William Herschel Telescope (WHT), Mercator Telescope, Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (JKT) and Isaac Newton Telescope (INT).
| Panoramica – Canon 50D – ISO500 18mm at f/5.6; Exp. 1/8000 secs. in 30/09/2013 at: 15h45 AM