Summary
The ESO (European Southern Observatory) has constructed four 8-meter telescopes on the site of the Atacama plateau in Chile (the VLT, or Very large telescope). To increase their power, they will be connected by a system which will combine their individual light to produce the equivalent of a telescope 200 meters in diameter.
The equipment which will accomplish this was named AMBER and was designed by a team which brought together the Grenoble Astrophysics Laboratory, the Côte d'Azur Observatory, the University of Nice, the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, and the Arcetri Observatory in Florence.
The equipment which will accomplish this was named AMBER and was designed by a team which brought together the Grenoble Astrophysics Laboratory, the Côte d'Azur Observatory, the University of Nice, the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, and the Arcetri Observatory in Florence.
