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Image Archive: Paranal


The GRAAL main assembly (detail)	View of GRAAL as seen from the telescope.	Working inside Kueyen	Electric Supercar at Paranal

An Auxiliary Telescope Waiting for Sunset	Night at Paranal Observatory	VLT at Paranal	Enclosures in moonlight

KUEYEN Observing	ANTU Enclosure	Auxillary Telescopes	Weather balloons on Paranal in support of the E-ELT

VLT at Paranal	VLT Auxiliary Telescopes under the Orion Constellation	Auxiliary telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory	One of the launch telescopes for the VLT Four Laser Guide Star Facility

ESO's New Compact Laser Guide Star Unit Tested	ESO's New Compact Laser Guide Star Unit Tested	Milky Way above Paranal	Seagull's egg in desert

ANTU Enclosure rotating	The Heart of a Powerful Telescope *	Paranal under the northern and southern sky	The Laser Guide Star on the VLT

Cerro Paranal	Aerial view of Paranal Observatory	View of NTT Peak	Sunset over Paranal *

On the VLT Platform	On the VLT Platform at Night	The VLT *	Council at Paranal

FORS1 mounted at ANTU	Building the VLT	One of the four Unit Telescopes of the VLT in its dome	VLT´s Auxiliary Telescopes Opening

Sunrise at the VLT Platform	The Dome of the Paranal Residencia	ANTU (UT1) and AT1	ANTU Enclosure - 1998

Paranal Platform - 1996	Enclosures under Construction	UT Enclosures in the Evening Light	The Atacama Desert in bloom

Under the Large Magellanic Cloud	VLT Unit Telescope	Planetary Conjunction over Paranal	The President of the Czech Republic on the VLT Platform

Partial lunar eclipse from the VLT platform	Panoramic view of the desert around the Paranal Observatory at sunset.	Paranal's Auxiliary Telescopes	Paranal Observatory