Astronomy:PIONIER (Very Large Telescope)

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PIONIER

The Precision Integrated-Optics Near-infrared Imaging ExpeRiment (PIONIER) is a visiting instrument at the ESO's Paranal Observatory,[1] part of the VLTI astronomical observatory. It combines the light from four telescopes simultaneously and provide 0.002 arc seconds of angular resolution, the equivalent angular resolution of a 100 m telescope.[citation needed]

PIONIER has been built at LAOG and has been installed at VLTI in November 2010.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. "All Four VLT Unit Telescopes Working as One". ESO Picture of the Week. http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1139a/. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 

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