We show here two of these that illustrate the great potential of this new facility. It is located in the southern constellation Sculptor at a distance of about 8 million light-years. They were slightly offset with respect to each other so that the small gaps between the eight CCD's of the mosaic are no longer visible. This image also shows the faint trails of 2 artificial satellites. Many of the quite numerous and small, slightly fuzzy objects are undoubtedly globular clusters of NGC 253.
North is up and East is left.
The observations were made on December 17, 1998. The crater just below the centre is Mairan and the one about halfway between these two and of about the same size is Sharp . The right-hand side of the picture was cropped in this reproduction to reduce the file size. North is up and East is left. Other important applications include the search for supernovae in distant clusters of galaxies and the optical identification of the rapidly fading gamma-ray bursters which are detected by space observatories, but for which only very crude positional determinations are available.