Very Large Telescope | ESO - ESO — The European Southern …
Mar 9, 2017 · ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a flagship facility for European ground-based astronomy. It is one of the world's most advanced optical telescopes, consisting of four Unit Telescopes with main mirrors of 8.2m diameter and four …
Saturn Storm in Mid-Infrared (VLT) - Webb
This image shows a giant Saturnian storm that was observed at mid-infrared wavelengths by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in 2011. The warm gases powering the storm make it glow brightly compared to the rest of the …
Very Large Telescope: Everything you need to know - Space.com
Sep 3, 2024 · The VLT doesn't just observe the deep sky; it also checks in on our planetary neighbors from time to time. Here is Saturn, imaged by the VLT in 2001. (Image credit: ESO)
Saturn’s seasonal variability from four decades of ground-based …
Mar 1, 2023 · Saturn was regularly observed by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Imager and Spectrometer for the mid-infrared (VISIR, Lagage et al., 2004) between 2008 and 2022. VISIR was mounted on the 8.2-m UT3 telescope at Paranal for much of this period, albeit with a 3-year period of refurbishment between 2012 and 2015.
Impressive new images released of Saturn and Io
Feb 1, 2002 · With its new NAOS-CONICA Adaptive Optics facility, the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory has recently obtained impressive views of the giant planet Saturn and Io, the...
Looking deep into a huge storm on Saturn | Astronomy.com
May 19, 2011 · The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has teamed up with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to study a rare storm in Saturn’s atmosphere in more detail than ever ...
ESA Science & Technology - VLT image of Saturn's giant vortex at …
This image shows a giant anti-cyclone in Saturn's stratosphere on 20 July 2011, as seen at mid-infrared wavelengths with the VISIR instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The vortex formed from the merging of two pockets of warm air in the stratosphere.
Observations of Saturn from VLT/VISIR (marked with V
Download scientific diagram | Observations of Saturn from VLT/VISIR (marked with V) and Subaru/COMICS (marked with C) from 2013-2021, spanning the period surrounding Saturn's northern summer...
Exploring Key Characteristics in Saturn's Infrared Auroral …
Jun 10, 2019 · Adaptive optics, combined with the spectral resolution of VLT-CRIRES ( 100,000), offers unprecedented spectrally resolved views of Saturn's infrared aurora.
Saturn ESO VLT IR & amateur visible light images. - Cloudy Nights
May 19, 2011 · Today in an ESO press release on the current Great Saturn Storm, IR data from the VLT in Chile along with amateur visible light data from Broken Hill Australia was presented in a paper by Oxford University planetary physicist Dr Leigh Fletcher. This press release announces the publication of this paper in the AAAS Journal “Science” released today.