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| Exciting sodium |
Paranal by day |
Fly on the wall |
Down time |
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| Stonework |
Streaks |
Casa San Pedro |
Laser Guide Star Testing |
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| MIDAS computer in use |
Building the Unit Telescope foundations |
One step at a time, building the UTs |
Armazones site testing, 1989 |
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| Salt formations at Salar de Atacama |
UK press delegation at Cerro Chico |
VLT platform at sunrise |
1953 participants of the Groningen conference aboard the MS Alkmaar |
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| Vosbergen Conference attendees |
Jean Louis Lizon with the EMMI |
Star party in San Pedro de Atacama |
Star party in Toconao |
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| Preparing UT2 for recoating |
Preparing VLT's UT2 for recoating |
Preparing VLT UT2 for recoating |
ALMA antennas seen from above |
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| Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation |
VLT image of the protoplanet around the young star HD 100546 |
VLT DSM |
Volcano in the Altiplano |
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| ALMA Residence Facade South |
ALMA Residence Facade West |
ALMA Residence Dormroom |
ALMA Residence Facade East |
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| ALMA Residence Facade North |
The KMOS team and other well-wishers at the time of first light |
Workshop participants visit the Paranal Observatory |
ESO@50 Conference |
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| Symphony instrument |
Residencia canteen |
Scaffold after cell removal |
European antenna |
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| ALMA inspection |
Glueing dry run |
Artist's impression of the E-ELT and the starry night sky |
Amelia Bayo |
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| Measuring the North - South axis |
VLT image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187 (annotated) |
VLT inauguration |
La Silla paths |
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| Andre Müller |
Snowstorm |
Flight over La Silla, 1964 |
La Silla before the observatories were built |