When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal . ... Tonight, the Geminds reach their peak and could be quite spectacular. ... The beautiful skyscape collected Gemini's lovely shooting stars in a careful composite of 30 exposures, each 20 seconds long, from the dark of the Chilean Atacama Desert over ESO 's Paranal Observatory . In the foreground Paranal's four Very Large Telescopes , four Auxillary Telescopes , and the VLT Survey telescope are all open and observing. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...