"Mushroom Farm" - North East side of Cerro Tololo

North-East side of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, where a series of the smaller telescopes are located. At the far right side of the image is a silver dome: the KMTNet 1.6-meter Telescope. 5 telescopes from the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCOGT). The Silver dome left of LCOGT is the SMARTS 1.3-meter Telescope. The following 8 domes at the left are part of the PROMPT project (Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes). In the white Container is the CTIO-GONG solar telescope, part of the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) and the last dome at the left is the T80-South Telescope. 

Credit:

CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Munizaga

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Id:noirlab-ctio-small-telescopes-dmunizaga
Type:Photographic
Release date:Nov. 9, 2020, 4:52 a.m.
Size:24287 x 6203 px

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