images

The Very Large Telescope (VLT)

by

ESO/Novapix

Reference

o-vlt01-10008

Date

2006-10-31

A view of the Paranal platform with the four 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescopes and the foundations for the 1.8-m VLT Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) that together will be used as the VLT Interferometer (VLTI). The three ATs will move on rails between the thirty observing stations above the holes that provide access to the underlying tunnel system. The light beams from the individual telescopes will be guided towards the centrally located, partly underground Interferometry Laboratory in which the VLTI instruments will be set up. This photo was obtained in november 1999.