Cerro Tololo and Andes mountains

Taken from the top of the mountain at Cerro Tololo in Chile during a recent service trip:

http://www.buytelescopes.com/content...mountains.jpeg

Uncarollo2 wrote:
Taken from the top of the mountain at Cerro Tololo in Chile during a recent service trip:

http://www.buytelescopes.com/content...mountains.jpeg

That's an amazing view, You must have been breathless walking up from the
observatories to take the photograph.

The two largest telescopes getting ready for a night's observing. On the left is the 4 meter Blanco telescope, on the right is the 1.5 meter CTIO telescope.

http://www.buytelescopes.com/content...servatory.jpeg

Next picture shows one of several control panels that operate the 4 meter telescope. This one controls the large wide field imaging array which consists of 62x 2048x4096 CCDs that covers 2.2 degrees of sky. It has a resolving power of 0.26 arc seconds.

http://www.buytelescopes.com/content...trol-room.jpeg

On Saturday, 14 February 2015 16:16:00 UTC-5, Uncarollo2 wrote:
Taken from the top of the mountain at Cerro Tololo in Chile during a recent service trip:

http://www.buytelescopes.com/content...mountains.jpeg

Not a bad image, but not great composition. The horizon should be higher in the scene and more foreground included. IMO. "Rule of Thirds" and all.

On Sunday, 15 February 2015 01:00:19 UTC+1, Uncarollo2 wrote:

http://www.buytelescopes.com/content...trol-room.jpeg

At the risk of pedantry:

All those screens are going to ruin her night vision! 8ø)

Thanks for sharing these images.