An all-sly fisheye view (fulldome) of the night sky over La Silla Observatory, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). It sits at about 2400 metres above sea level on the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert. La Silla was ESO’s first observatory, inaugurated in 1969. The Milky Way appears from the southwest (lower right) to northeast (upper left) with the bright galactic central bulge overhead. Venus and the vertically elongated faint glow of zodiacal light are on the left (southeast) above the breaking light of dawn. The Small Magellanic Cloud is also visible on the bttom (south). Mars is the second brightest object in this view, after Venus, shining at right near the western horizon. The green light near the horizon is airglow; natural emission of the Earth upper atmosphere.