Paranal Platform - 2007

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The Milky Way Shines on Paranal

Ready for the night

Paranal Platform After Sunset

Paranal Platform as Night Sets In

Paranal at Sunrise

Paranal at Sunrise II

The Observing Platform as the Crow Flies

The Hubble Space Telescope Flies Over South America

Paranal Starry Night

Paranal Platform

The VLT

Aerial View of the VLTI with Tunnels Superimposed

The Planet, the Galaxy and the Laser

Shooting a Laser at the Galactic Centre

First Light of the VLT Laser Guide Star

The Laser Guide System

An Artificial Star Above Paranal

The Comet and the Laser

Milky Way Above the VLT Platform

A view of VLT in Paranal

Comet McNaught, the Moon, Venus and the VLT

The Comet and the Telescopes

Comet McNaught over AT

Comet McNaught and ATs

A Cometary "Aurora" at Paranal

Paranal Panorama 2007

Comet McNaught over the VLT platform

Paranal Observatory Under Moonlight

VLT Auxiliary Telescope

Paranal in Atacama desert

Laser at Yepun

The Laser Guide Star Laboratory

Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF)

Laser at VLT

ANTU (UT1) and AT1

A VLT Unit

Reinstallation of the Mirrors

Preparing for the Observations

Enclosures on Platform

KUEYEN Structure

Preparing for the Observations

FORS1 and FORS2 at ANTU and KUEYEN

FORS1 mounted at ANTU

ISAAC mounted at ANTU

CRIRES

UVES at KUEYEN with cover partially lifted

VLTs Stretch Into the Distance

Orion above the VLT