Images

La Silla on the horizon

Diagram of the VLT

Night shift

Building the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla

ALMA antennas waiting at the OSF

Chajnantor before ALMA

The rolling hills of the Atacama

Access to Gamsberg

Sky Atlas Laboratory

MIDAS computer, 1980

MIDAS user room

Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

Pointing

First Colloquium at ESO HQ, 1980

Enard, Merkle and Tarenghi

Contract signing between AMOS and ESO, 1992.

First Colloquium at ESO HQ

Aerial view of La Silla observatory, 1980

VLT Conference talk

ESO Council 1987

Sunrise at Paranal

1968 aerial view of UN-CEPAL compound

MS Alkmaar during the Leiden conference

Groningen Conference, 1953

VLT's UT2 without mirror, during recoating

UT2 recoating being transported for recoating

Preparing UT2 for recoating

Shooting Marco Polo documentary at ALMA

ESO headquarters in Garching during a Comet Shoemaker���Levy 9 symposium, July 1994.

Comet Shoemaker���Levy 9 symposium, July 1994

Meteorological station atop of La Montura

Staff Accommodation at La Silla

La Silla early construction

At home at La Silla

Worker during La Silla observatory construction

VLT first light press conference

The world watches

Announcement during VLT First Light press conference

Question time

Meeting in Paris, 1987

Remote control of the NTT in Garching

ALMA OSF panorama

Aerial view of Paranal in 1994

A bird's eye view of Paranal in 1994.

The VLT at Paranal Observatory

Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, Anne Glover, visits ESO���s Paranal Observatory

The Crown Prince Couple of Denmark during their visit to ESO���s Paranal Observatory