Daylight Panoramic view from Roque de Los Muchachos Telescopes


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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

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