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| M2 Unit with the Beryllium Mirror |
First VLT M2 Beryllium Mirror |
First VLT Mirror Touchdown |
8.2-m Zerodur Mirror: From Ship to Land |
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| M1 Cell and Dummy Mirror Transportation |
In the Atacama Desert |
Paranal Mountain Platform |
Inside the VLT control Building |
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| Dusty Panamericana Road |
Paranal Power Plant |
Coating Plant |
Removing the Vacuum Chamber |
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| Arrival at Paranal |
Installation of the Serrurier Struts |
Lowering the Altitude Axis |
Serrurier Strut |
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| Entering the Enclosure |
Lower Intermediate Structure of UT1 |
Close-up of the Paranal Platform |
Southern View of the Paranal Platform |
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| Aerial View of Paranal Observatory |
ISAAC and SOFI |
Paranal Observatory: Unit Telescope no. 1 |
Installation of the UT2 Baseframe |
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| Aligning the UT1 Intermediate Structures |
A Generating Set for VLT |
A Power-generating Set for VLT |
The VLT at Paranal Observatory |
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| The new PARLA laser in operation at ESO’s Paranal Observatory |
Delivery of the VLT Schott Mirror, 1993 |
From the Dark Side of the Moon to Paranal |
VLT mirror shipped to Chile |
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| The International Press at Paranal Observatory |
The International Press at Paranal Observatory |
A Giant Mirror Goes Back to Work |
Cerro Armazones and Cerro Paranal in Chile |
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| Cleaning a VLT mirror |
Very Large Telescope |
Paranal Residencia |
View of the first MACAO-VLTI facility at Paranal |
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| NAOS-CONICA at VLT YEPUN |
Sunset at Paranal |
Atacama Desert Road |
Arriving at Antofagasta |
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| Atacama and the M1 Cell |
Arrival of the VLT M1 Mirror Cell |
Base for UT2 |
Giant Coating Plant for the VLT: a Porthole View |
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| VLT Observatory on Cerro Paranal |
VLT Observatory on Cerro Paranal |
Construction of VLT Main Structure |
Construction of VLT Main Structure |