Coating Unit
![[Coating Unit]](/sci/facilities/paranal/telescopes/ut/ctg1.gif)
The VLT 8-meter mirror coating unit was built at Deggendorfer Werft, Germany. Linde A.G., Germany as the main contractor and BOC-Coating Technology, U.K. as the major subcontractor for the vacuum and process technology worked together to construct the coating unit. The major functionality and vacuum and thin film deposition performance was verified before the coating plant was dismantled and shipped to Chile.The provisional acceptance tests of the coating unit on the Paranal Observatory were done in July/August 1997.
Table of Content
- The VLT 8.2-m Unit Telescope
- VLT Environmental Specifications
- The VLT primary mirrors
- The VLT Primary Mirror Cooling System
- The Secondary Mirror, M2 Unit
- The M1 Cell and M3 Tower
- The VLT Active Optics System
- The VLT Adapter-Rotators
- VLT Cassegrain Adapter-Rotators
- VLT Nasmyth Adapter-Rotator
- Very Large Telescope Enclosure
- VLT Technical CCD System
- Coating Unit
- Sky Accessibility
- UT Performance