Image Archive: Paranal


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	Paranal summit ready for the VLT - 1994	UVES during its assembly	The MCAO Concept