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Image Archive: Paranal


Shooting a Laser at the Galactic Centre *	The VLT Array on the Paranal Mountain	Atacama Desert in bloom	The GRAAL main assembly (detail)

View of GRAAL as seen from the telescope.	Working inside Kueyen	Electric Supercar at Paranal	An Auxiliary Telescope Waiting for Sunset

Night at Paranal Observatory	VLT at Paranal	Enclosures in moonlight	KUEYEN Observing

ANTU Enclosure	Auxillary Telescopes	Weather balloons on Paranal in support of the E-ELT	VLT at Paranal

VLT Auxiliary Telescopes under the Orion Constellation	Auxiliary telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory	One of the launch telescopes for the VLT Four Laser Guide Star Facility	ESO's New Compact Laser Guide Star Unit Tested

ESO's New Compact Laser Guide Star Unit Tested	Milky Way above Paranal	Seagull's egg in desert	ANTU Enclosure rotating

The Heart of a Powerful Telescope *	Paranal under the northern and southern sky	The Laser Guide Star on the VLT	Cerro Paranal

Aerial view of Paranal Observatory	View of NTT Peak	Galactic backdrop	Sunset over Paranal *

On the VLT Platform	On the VLT Platform at Night	The VLT *	Council at Paranal

FORS1 mounted at ANTU	Building the VLT	One of the four Unit Telescopes of the VLT in its dome	VLT´s Auxiliary Telescopes Opening

Sunrise at the VLT Platform	The Dome of the Paranal Residencia	ANTU (UT1) and AT1	ANTU Enclosure - 1998

Paranal Platform - 1996	Enclosures under Construction	UT Enclosures in the Evening Light	The Atacama Desert in bloom

Under the Large Magellanic Cloud	VLT Unit Telescope	Planetary Conjunction over Paranal	The President of the Czech Republic on the VLT Platform