Talk:VLT Survey Telescope

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Needs dates

This article needs some dates, like when construction started and when the displayed pictures were taken. Also what are the dimensions (meters) of the CCD array? 69.134.10.140 (talk) 10:21, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The shutter (and hence the CCD, I guess) is about the size of a crate of beer: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~ccd/shutters/omegacam.html. HTH, 134.171.40.235 (talk) 13:52, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]