One of our most anticipated deliveries! | ELT Updates

After a journey of more than 10,000 km by sea and by land, the first 18 segments of the main mirror of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) have arrived at our Paranal Observatory in Chile from Europe.
With the segments at Paranal, the next phase in this intricate process involves the coating of the mirror segments in the ELT Technical Facility to give them their highly reflective finish - a process that will be reiterated on each segment every 18 months once the ELT begins observations.
Read more about this milestone here: www.eso.org/pu... and here: www.eso.org/pu...
Credit:
ESO.
Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis
Editing: Angelos Tsaousis
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida
Written by: Bárbara Ferreira
Footage and photos: ESO, Samuel Santana Tschudi
Music: Jon Kennedy - Unique
Acknowledgement: ATI

[@Astromath]

Any day with ELT news is an extremely good day

[@herblapp6134]

Magnificent engineering.....the game changer

[@ESOobservatory]

It will indeed change everything!

[@mariadaluzmoutinho5701]

Esta entrega é muito valiosa ...para o conhecimento! Há entregas que nos exaltam e nos fazem felizes!!

[@Raptorman0909]

The totality of the infrastructure needed for a modern large observatory is quite impressive. Pretty much all modern observatories have cleaning and recoating equipment onsite with spares that allow a segment to be removed for cleaning and recoating and a spare segment, precleaned and ready to go, to replace the removed segment.