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| VLT Mechanical Structure |
VLT Unit Telescope 1 |
VLT Auxiliary Telescopes |
An Oasis for Astronomers (side-by-side composite) |
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| VLTI tunnel |
VLTI tunnel |
SLODAR Instrument at Paranal |
A Muse for the VLT |
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| The VLT Interferometer at Paranal |
VLT 8.2-m Zerodur Mirror Inspection |
VLT Dummy Mirror: Ready to be Moved |
VLT Dummy Mirror Meets the Mirror Handling Tool |
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| VLT M1 Cell: Approach to the Camp |
VLT M1 Mirror Cell Moved to the Mirror Maintenance Building |
VLT Future Interferometric Laboratory |
View of UT1 through the Slit Doors |
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| VLT Altitude Drive Housing |
VLT UT1 Telescope Structure |
VLT Control Building |
West of Paranal Area |
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| VLT UT-1 Top Ring |
Vacuum Chamber |
VLT Coating Plant: from Sea to Land |
VLT UT1 U-formed Centerpiece |
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| UT1 Enclosure |
The Paranal Complex |
The Light Beam Tunnel for UT2 |
The Light Beam Tunnel from UT4 to the Incoherent Focus |
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| VLT UT1 |
The Giant Coating Plant for the Very Large Telescope |
The Giant Coating Plant for the ESO VLT |
PROED Paranal |
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| VISIR Startup |
Getting Your Wires Crossed |
Paranal Inauguration |
Paranal atop the mountain |
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| Paranal Access Road |
Polishing the Primary Mirror of the VLT |
Room with a view |
Peering into the unknown |
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| Diagram of the VLT |
Night shift |
The rolling hills of the Atacama |
Sunrise at Paranal |
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| VLT's UT2 without mirror, during recoating |
UT2 recoating being transported for recoating |
Preparing UT2 for recoating |
Meteorological station atop of La Montura |
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| Aerial view of Paranal in 1994 |
A bird's eye view of Paranal in 1994. |
The VLT at Paranal Observatory |
Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, Anne Glover, visits ESO’s Paranal Observatory |