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La Residencia at Paranal	Warming light	Licancabur sunrise	Southern Milky Way

The VLT	Paranal in the edge of the day	Site testing, 1995	Japanese ALMA antennas

Logistics at Paranal	Moon eclipse seen from La Silla	ALMA and Andes	Exciting sodium

Paranal by day	Fly on the wall	Down time	Stonework

Streaks	Casa San Pedro	Laser Guide Star Testing	MIDAS computer in use

Building the Unit Telescope foundations	One step at a time, building the UTs	Armazones site testing, 1989	Salt formations at Salar de Atacama

UK press delegation at Cerro Chico	VLT platform at sunrise	1953 participants of the Groningen conference aboard the MS Alkmaar	Vosbergen Conference attendees

Jean Louis Lizon with the EMMI	Star party in San Pedro de Atacama	Star party in Toconao	Preparing UT2 for recoating

Preparing VLT's UT2 for recoating	Preparing VLT UT2 for recoating	ALMA antennas seen from above	Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation

VLT image of the protoplanet around the young star HD 100546	VLT DSM	Volcano in the Altiplano	ALMA Residence Facade South

ALMA Residence Facade West	ALMA Residence Dormroom	ALMA Residence Facade East	ALMA Residence Facade North

The KMOS team and other well-wishers at the time of first light	Workshop participants visit the Paranal Observatory	ESO@50 Conference	Symphony instrument

Residencia canteen	Scaffold after cell removal	European antenna	ALMA inspection