{"id":1392,"date":"2015-05-11T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronom.cz\/horalek\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T10:23:26","slug":"while-the-vlts-were-resting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"While the VLTs were resting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1396\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_VLT_Rest3_1700px.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_VLT_Rest3_1700px-1024x560.png\" alt=\"While the VLTs were resting\" width=\"388\" height=\"212\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_VLT_Rest3_1700px-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_VLT_Rest3_1700px-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_VLT_Rest3_1700px-520x284.png 520w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_VLT_Rest3_1700px.png 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While the VLTs were resting<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"align: right;\">Usually one of the most scientifically productive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/vlt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESO Paranal Observatory<\/a> had to rest on 26th January 2015. Why? The views to the clear skies disrupted a frontal overcast. But as you can see, even in the bad weather the starry sky is still incredible there in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atacama_Desert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atacama desert<\/a>. So while the VLTs were resting, I took my camera anyway and captured this majestic view to the Milky way above the &#8220;domes&#8221; of the giant telescopes. You can enjoy all the objects in it as Orion, the hunter, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barnard%27s_Loop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barnard&#8217;s loop<\/a>, Vela nebula, Magellanic clouds, Southern Cross or Carina. A green hue belongs to the luminiscenting atmosphere. The clouds made me even better conditions as a diffuse filter making bright halo around the brightest stars. Rest for the telescopes just didn&#8217;t mean the bad photographic conditions at all! Used Canon 6D IR Baader Mod, Samyang 24 mm, f2.0, ISO 10000, 62&#215;15 s panorama; tripod.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" style=\"width:450px\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=3><strong>More photographs from the Paranal observatory<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150px\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_24_Moonset_Paranal_1500px.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_24_Moonset_Paranal_1500px-150x150.png\"><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"150px\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_Paranal_VLT_Laser1_8bit_1500px.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_Paranal_VLT_Laser1_8bit_1500px-150x150.png\"><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"150px\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_Paranal_VLT_Laser2_8bit_1500px.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_01_26_Paranal_VLT_Laser2_8bit_1500px-150x150.png\"><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150px\">\nThe Paranal on moonlight<br \/>(24\/01\/2015)\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"150px\">\nVLT&#8217;s beam and Vela nebula<br \/>(26\/01\/2015)\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"150px\">\nVLT&#8217;s beam and Vela nebula<br \/>(26\/01\/2015)<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually one of the most scientifically productive ESO Paranal Observatory had to rest on 26th January 2015. Why? The views to the clear skies disrupted a frontal overcast. But as you can see, even in the bad weather the starry sky is still incredible there in the Atacama desert. So while the VLTs were resting,&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=1392\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atmospheric-phenomena","category-milky-way","tag-european-southern-observatory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}