File:An Astronomer’s Outlook (15883573804).jpg

Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 213 pixels | 640 × 427 pixels | 1,024 × 682 pixels | 1,280 × 853 pixels.

Original file ‎(1,280 × 853 pixels, file size: 136 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

English

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description	Step outside the control room of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at night, and you will be greeted with a jaw-dropping sight. Thousands of stars cover the sky and the Milky Way stretches from one horizon to another. More information: <a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1506a/" rel="nofollow">www.eso.org/public/images/potw1506a/</a> Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky (LCO)
Date	9 February 2015, 10:00
Source	An Astronomer’s Outlook
Author	European Southern Observatory

Licensing[edit]

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

You are free:

to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

This image was originally posted to Flickr by European Southern Observatory at https://flickr.com/photos/51207680@N04/15883573804 (archive). It was reviewed on 7 November 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

7 November 2018

This file was uploaded in a mass upload from flickr and may not have been fully examined before uploading. Before removing this template, please do the following:

Make sure the file is in scope, with educational or historical value. Make sure it was created by the flickr account holder, and is not a derivative work of a separately copyrighted work. If the file does not belong on Commons, nominate it for deletion.
If the file has a generic or nondescriptive filename imported from flickr, move the file to a descriptive filename or request a rename.
Add a useful description to the file.
Add useful and specific categories to the file
Correct any other information, such as dates of scanned slides.

English ∙ Deutsch ∙ +/−

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:41, 7 November 2018		1,280 × 853 (136 KB)	Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk \| contribs)	Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on Commons

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Credit/Provider	ESO/Y. Beletsky (LCO)
Source	European Southern Observatory
Short title	An Astronomer’s Outlook
Image title	Step outside the control room of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at night, and you will be greeted with a jaw-dropping sight. Thousands of stars cover the sky and the Milky Way stretches from one horizon to another. In this image, the dark lanes of the Milky Way are visible, dense clouds of dust and gas that block out the light from background stars. The varying colours of the surrounding visible stars result from their different ages and temperatures — young, hot stars are very blue-white in colour, whilst the older, cooler generation appear more orange or red. For the astronomers, a sight like this means that good data is on the way due to the lack of polluting moonlight. In order to help keep the sky as dark as possible, any lights within rooms not currently in use inside the control building are turned off and blackout blinds are put over the windows. Astronomers walk outside only with the aid of torchlight, preferably with a red filter so as to preserve their night vision — important if you want to gaze at the wonders above without the aid of a telescope. The office in this image is actually just next to the VLT control room and the strange object outside the window is part of the control building which is located on a "shelf" below the main observing platform at the top of the Paranal Mountain. This image was taken by ESO Photo Ambassador and Ultra High Definition Expedition member, Yuri Beletsky.
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Date and time of data generation	10:00, 9 February 2015
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (Windows)
Unique ID of original document	9A606ED33024C42AB7A09B6963628E59
Keywords	Paranal Very Large Telescope
Contact information	http://www.eso.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
IIM version	4

Structured data

File:An Astronomer’s Outlook (15883573804).jpg

Captions

Captions

Summary[edit]

Licensing[edit]

File history

File usage on Commons

Metadata

Structured data

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

creator

some value

copyright status

copyrighted

copyright license

Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

inception

9 February 2015

source of file

file available on the internet

media type

image/jpeg

checksum

536b291106b4023020b051aa77f8f8a14d1b67b3

data size

139,105 byte

height

853 pixel

width

1,280 pixel

Navigation menu

File:An Astronomer’s Outlook (15883573804).jpg

Captions

Captions

Summary[edit]

Licensing[edit]

File history

File usage on Commons

Metadata

Navigation menu

Search