Image Archive: Paranal


The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)	Flags on the VLT platform	Time for a swim	Flowers in the Atacama desert

VLT 4LGSF OTA L2 lens measurement on NANOMEFOS	VLT 4LGSF OTA L2 lens measurement on NANOMEFOS	UT 1 Recoated	The current Laser Guide Star at the Very Large Telescope

Celestial Tic-Tac-Toe: Mercury, Venus and the Moon Align	VLT at Night at Paranal	Paranal Residencia	The Residencia at Dawn *

Auxilliary Telescope	Preparing for PRIMA First Light	The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia

The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia	Forefront of science

Startrails and lasers	Laser Guide Star	Atacama Desert in bloom	VLT 4LGSF OTA aspherical L2 lens

View from Paranal	VLT 4LGSF OTA L2 lens measurement on NANOMEFOS	The central hall at the Paranal Residencia	VLT Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal

Paranal Observatory	Paranal from on High	Starting up UT3	Flowers in the desert

The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia

The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia	The Paranal Residencia

A close-up of a test siderostat	VLT primary mirror	Correcting atmospheric turbulence	VLT 4LGSF OTA Field Selector Mechanism

The VLT’s Auxiliary Telescopes	Sunrise at Paranal Observatory	VLT Unit Telescope at Paranal	Paranal before the VLT (1991)

Paranal: aerial view, 1999	VLT Yepun and Melipal at Cerro Paranal	Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD)	Two Auxiliary Telescopes and one Unit Telescope