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| A Hard Day's Night Ahead |
The VLT in Action* |
Mars, 2099? |
Yepun’s Laser and the Magellanic Clouds |
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| Bird’s Eye View of the Very Large Telescope* |
Group Portrait of the VLT with the Galaxy |
A Laser Beam Towards the Milky Way's Centre* |
Image composition of ESO observatories |
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| The VLT´s Laser Guide Star |
The VLT platform on top of Cerro Paranal |
Creating a Star |
Paranal at Sunrise II |
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| Lying down on the VLT platform |
Dramatic Moonset — Amazing Sight on Cerro Paranal, Home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope* |
VLT Telescopes at Paranal |
Paranal at Sunrise |
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| The Observing Platform as the Crow Flies * |
Sunset view at Paranal with Moon, Venus and an AT |
Milky Way Above the VLT Platform |
The Planet, the Galaxy and the Laser |
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| Straight to the Milky Way´s Heart |
Zodiacal Light at Paranal |
Sailing the Atacama Desert |
Straight to the Milky Way´s Heart |
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| Beautiful Sky over Paranal * |
A Slice of the Sky |
Laser Beam Creating an “Artificial” Star |
Paranal Platform |
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| Aerial View of the VLTI with Tunnels Superimposed |
Aerial View of Cerro Paranal |
Moon rise at the Very Large Telescope |
Launching a Star |
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| The VLT “Venus” and the Belt of Venus |
Shooting a Laser at the Galactic Centre |
Dramatic Moonset |
Laser Guide Star Facility |
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| Orion above the VLT |
Ready for the night |
Spinning into Action |
The VLT Platform |
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| VLT Unit and Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal |
VLT at Paranal |
Comet McNaught over AT |
Paranal Observatory |
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| Paranal Platform as Night Sets In |
Adding an “Artificial” Star to the Multitude in the Sky |
Paranal Observatory |
VLT Laser Guide Star |
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| First Light of the VLT Laser Guide Star |
The New Set at Paranal - The VLT, the VST dome and the AT1 |
Preparing for Observations at Paranal |
Night Comes to Paranal |