Large-format camera snaps first color view

Recently installed on a telescope in Chile, one of the largest astronomical cameras ever built has imaged the spiral galaxy NGC 4945 and its surroundings.

References:

1999. First colour photo from ESO's Wide-Field-Imager at La Silla. ESO Press Release. Available at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-1999/phot-18-99.html.

Sources:

European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
D-85748 Garching
Germany

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 14, April 3, 1999, p. 215. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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