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The Messenger 115
March 2004


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The First Light of the first VLTI Auxiliary Telescope

B. Koehler and the AT1 Assembly and Commissioning team (ESO)

Abstract: On January 24th, the first Auxiliary Telescope (AT1) obtained its first image of the Paranal sky. This was a long awaited event that marks the birth of a new generation of telescope at Paranal. This article gives a brief description of the busy but exiting period of on-site re-assembly and commissioning.

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