These viewgraphs are freely available for non-commercial purposes from this ESO Web page. They can of course also be used as slides. Note also that further information about the VLT and the Paranal Observatory is available on the VLT Information page. Other images will appear from time to time as Press Photos . The photo on the front page was obtained in the early evening hours and shows the enclosures of UT1, UT2 and UT3.
Scientific progress requires improved facilities.
The collecting area of existing and future, large telescopes. Current projects for 8-m class telescopes, with countries indicated. The VLT interferometric array and its elements. The VLT is unique among the large telescopes in having been planned as an interferometric facility from the outset, with four 8.2-m Unit Telescopes and several small, moveable Auxiliary Telescopes. Lay-out of the VLT Interferometer.