# A 360 degree panorama of a unique cloudscape over La Silla

- By: ESO/F. Kamphues
- Date: 2009-12-03
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: http://www.eso.org/public/images/lasilla/
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_360_degree_panorama_of_a_unique_cloudscape_over_La_Silla.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/A_360_degree_panorama_of_a_unique_cloudscape_over_La_Silla.jpg/1920px-A_360_degree_panorama_of_a_unique_cloudscape_over_La_Silla.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A 360 degree view of a rare cloudscape over La Silla, in the southern edges of the Atacama Desert, home of ESO's first observing site. Here ESO operates three major telescopes: the 3.6-metre telescope, the New Technology Telescope and the 2.2-metre Max-Planck-ESO telescope. They are equipped with state-of-the art instruments such as HARPS, the best extrasolar planet finder in the world. The dome in the centre of the image belongs to the ESO 3.6-metre telescope, commissioned in 1977 and completely upgraded in 1999, and to which HARPS is mounted. At the far right of the image is the 15-metre Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST), built in 1987, decommissioned in 2003, and replaced by the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the 5100 m Chajnantor plateau.