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Very Large Telescope

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Original – The Very Large Telescope on top of the Cerro Paranal mountain in northern Chile. The telescope array consists of four 8.2 meter telescopes, four 1.8 meter movable auxiliary telescopes (in foreground), and one survey telescope (in far-right side).

Reason

Image of the Very Large Telescope array in northern Chile. The image is a bit noisy and unsharp, but hopefully the EV and composition makes up for it.

Articles in which this image appears

Very Large Telescope, plus one

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding

Creator

European Southern Observatory, photographer Gerhard Hüdepohl

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 21:06, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support, though I should note my dad worked on designing the mirror mounts for this, so I'm biased. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.4% of all FPs.} 07:15, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:23, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support – --Janke | Talk 09:49, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support – Choliamb (talk) 13:04, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support – Aviafanboi (talk) 11:28, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 18:14, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 08:12, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Promoted File:Paranal and the Pacific at sunset (dsc4088, retouched, cropped).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:43, 14 June 2023 (UTC)