Talk:Paranal Observatory

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Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:360-degree Panorama of the Southern Sky edit.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on November 23, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-11-23. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 20:28, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A 360° panorama of the night sky above Paranal Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in northern Chile. This view shows the Milky Way forming an arc, the moon on the horizon just rising, the zodiacal light above it, and on the right, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds.Photo: H. H. Heyer, ESO

Units for mirror sizes

I suggest feet are changed to inches in the alternative bracketed units for mirror size. Don't most people think in terms of inches rather than feet for telescope mirrors? Van Speijk (talk) 20:33, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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Tracks?

Hi,
Appears to be a network of tracks connecting the buildings. In the Lego model, colored red. Can someone explain? Thx, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 23:58, 6 October 2022 (UTC)