“Atacama Starry Nights” timelapse video by Babak Tafreshi
Babak Tafreshi, an astronomer, journalist and director of The World at Night (TWAN) is creating a series of timelapse videos from Paranal in Chile, and we present you his latest amazing work. This footage is made during an imaging expedition to Paranal assigned by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Cerro Paranal is truly an astronomers paradise with its stunningly dark, steady and transparent sky. Located in the barren Atacama Desert of Chile it is home to some of the world’s leading telescopes. Operated by the European Southern Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located on Paranal, composed of four 8 m telescopes which can combine their light to make a giant telescope by interferometry. Four smaller auxiliary telescopes, each 1.8 m in aperture, are important elements of the VLT interferometer.
You can see more of Babak’s work here.
WONDERFUL / ULTIMATE / FANTASTIC
truly amazing