Blanco Telescope & DECam
Credit: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration [Image source]
The black cylinder contains the corrective optics, filter wheel, and 570-megapixel CCD array of the Dark Energy Camera.
The following description of the telescope comes from here:
"The Victor M. Blanco Telescope, also known as the Blanco 4m, [is] located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. CTIO is located on top of two mountains in the Chilean Andes; Cerro Tololo, which is 7,200 feet (2,200 meters) high, and Cerro Pachon, which is 8,900 feet (2,700 meters) high. Both mountains are about 285 miles (460 km) north of Santiago and 50 miles (80 km) inland from the coastal city of La Serena. The telescope is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation."
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Blanco Telescope & DECam
Credit: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration [Image source]
The black cylinder contains the corrective optics, filter wheel, and 570-megapixel CCD array of the Dark Energy Camera.
The following description of the telescope comes from here:
"The Victor M. Blanco Telescope, also known as the Blanco 4m, [is] located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. CTIO is located on top of two mountains in the Chilean Andes; Cerro Tololo, which is 7,200 feet (2,200 meters) high, and Cerro Pachon, which is 8,900 feet (2,700 meters) high. Both mountains are about 285 miles (460 km) north of Santiago and 50 miles (80 km) inland from the coastal city of La Serena. The telescope is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation."
IMAGE RIGHTS NOTICE: "Documents authored by Fermilab employees are the result of work under U.S. Government contract DE-AC02-76CH03000 and are therefore subject to the following license: The Government is granted for itself and others acting on its behalf a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in these documents to reproduce, prepare derivative works, and perform publicly and display publicly by or on behalf of the Government."