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Image Archive: La Silla


Astronomers working at La Silla	Finace Committee Visits Chile	Components of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	ESO 1-metre Schmidt Telescope

The ESO 3.6-metre telescope building under construction	Life at La Silla Observatory in 1969	A lateral view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope model	Adaptive Optics at Play

Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope	Staff Quarters at La Silla	Inauguration of the Pelicano Airstrip	Eric Maurice

Dome of the Grand Prisme Objectif telescope	La Silla on the horizon	Building the 2.2 metre at La Silla	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	Aerial view of La Silla observatory, 1980

Staff Accommodation at La Silla	La Silla early construction	At home at La Silla	Worker during La Silla observatory construction

Claus Madsen at La Silla (GPO)	NTT Assembly	La Silla Hotel	Aerial view of La Silla Observatory, 1966

The ESO 1-metre Telescope	Coudé spectrograph on the ESO 1.52-metre Telescope	Access road to the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	An ESO truck

Petrol station at Camp Pelicano	Aluminising plant	Aluminising plant	Model of the Coudé Auxiliary Telescope

Map of the La Silla Observatory in 1969	Foundations of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope dome	The electronic workshop at La Silla in 1969	The La Silla Hotel in 1969

The Schmidt Telescope at La Silla	The beginning of La Silla	Foxes at La Silla	Observing at the 1-m Photometric Telescope

Inside the 1-m Photometric Telescope	Snow at La Silla	Around La Silla	La Silla RVM machine

La Silla Power Station	Pelicano Camp	Construction of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Neighbours at Quebrada Pelícano