Installation of the M2 unit

The final phases of the assembly work on the first VLT 8.2-m Unit Telescope (UT1) at Paranal. View of the front end of the telescope structure with the spiders and a dummy M2 Unit in place, just before the exchange with the real M2 Unit. The service platform for this operation is seen just below the M2 Unit. (Photo obtained on March 12, 1998).