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Image Archive: La Silla


The ESO 1.52-metre telescope and Chilicass	Bochum 0.61-metre telescope	ESO 3.6-metre telescope from the CAT	The CAT dome being assembled

Construction of the Coudé Auxiliary Telescope	The radio hut at La Silla	The X-shooter instrument	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	La Silla Observatory	Kapteyn mid-infrared photometer	The Kapteyn photometer

The ESO 1-metre telescope around 1969	The ESO 1-metre telescope	Hans-Emil Schuster and Sonya	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope	The arrival of the ESO 1-metre telescope	HAWK-I Integration

HAWK-I Integration	HAWK-I	HAWK-I Integration	HAWK-I Integration

HAWK-I Integration	Telescope controls	Workers at La Silla site during construction	Preparing explosives during La Silla construction

Danish 0.5-metre telescope	In the observer's seat of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope	Photometer on the ESO 1-metre Telescope

The La Silla aluminising plant in 1969	La Silla Post Stamp in Chile	A. Behr	ESO 3.6-metre Telescope model

Three telescopes at La Silla	First light for the Grand Prisme Objectif telescope	Dedication ceremony for the road to the summit of La Silla.	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

The ESO 1-metre telescope at La Silla	The ESO 1-metre telescope arrival	The arrival of the ESO 1-metre telescope	The arrival of the ESO 1-metre telescope

Season's Greetings!	La Silla rocks	The Coudé spectrograph	Uphill at La Silla

ESO 3.6-metre telescope	La Silla hotel	Transporting the ESO 3.6-metre telescope's mirror	The ESO 1.52-metre telescope, circa 1969