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La Palma observatory

author: B.A.Tafreshi/Novapix

reference: o-lpa01-00022

Image Size 300 DPI: 77 * 46 cm

The night sky in the dusk above some of the world's major telescopes in Roque de los Muchachos observatory, located at the top of the La Palma in Canary Islands, about 2400 meters above sea level at the edge of a large caldera. The north stars, Polaris, is near the middle and Cassiopeia is at right. There are about a dozen major telescopes on this excellent observing site. Some of them are visible here below the autumn Milky Way. From the center to right: the 2.5m NOT or Nordic Optical Telescope, the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope, the two solar towers (Dutch Open Telescope and the Swedish Solar Telescope), the 2,5m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) and at last the 1-meter Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope.

Keywords for this photo:

2011 - ANDROMEDA - ASTRONOMY - BIG DIPPER - CANARY ISLANDS - CASSIOPEIA - CLOUD - DOME - DOT - INT - ISAAC NEWTON TELESCOPE - JACOBUS KAPTEYN TELESCOPE - JKT - LA PALMA - M31 - MILKY WAY - NIGHT - NORDIC OPTICAL TELESCOPE - NOT - OBSERVATORY - POLARIS - POLE STAR - POSTER - ROQUE DE LOS MUCHACHOS - SEA OF CLOUDS - SOLAR TELESCOPE - SOLAR TOWER - SPAIN - SST - STAR - STARRY SKY - TELESCOPE - TOWER - URSA MAJOR - WHT - WILLIAM HERSCHEL TELESCOPE -