Images

Warming light

Licancabur sunrise

Southern Milky Way

The VLT

Paranal in the edge of the day

Site testing, 1995

Laser Over the Milky Way

Japanese ALMA antennas

Logistics at Paranal

Moon eclipse seen from La Silla

ALMA and Andes

Fly on the wall

Down time

Stonework

Casa San Pedro

Laser Guide Star Testing

MIDAS computer in use

Building the Unit Telescope foundations

One step at a time, building the UTs

Armazones site testing, 1989

Salt formations at Salar de Atacama

UK press delegation at Cerro Chico

VLT platform at sunrise

1953 participants of the Groningen conference aboard the MS Alkmaar

Vosbergen Conference attendees

Jean Louis Lizon with the EMMI

Star party in San Pedro de Atacama

Star party in Toconao

Preparing UT2 for recoating

Preparing VLT's UT2 for recoating

Preparing VLT UT2 for recoating

ALMA antennas seen from above

Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation

VLT image of the protoplanet around the young star HD 100546

VLT DSM

Volcano in the Altiplano

A technician works on the ALMA correlator at 5000 metres elevation

ALMA Residence Facade West

ALMA Residence Facade South

ALMA Residence Facade North

ALMA Residence Facade East

ALMA Residence Dormroom

The KMOS team and other well-wishers at the time of first light

Workshop participants visit the Paranal Observatory

ESO@50 Conference

SINFONI instrument

Residencia canteen

Scaffold after cell removal

European antenna

ALMA inspection