The Starry Messenger is Phase I of the Electronic History of Astronomy developed in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. This phase was directed by Dr Sachiko Kusukawa and Dr Liba Taub, and supported by funding from Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr David Chart was the Project Manager.
The Very Large Telescope is in fact four telescopes, which are located on Cerro Paranal, a mountain in Chile. Each telescope is equipped with an 8.2m mirror; working together they are equivalent to a 16.4m instrument.