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	Paranal Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Paranal_Observatory.html (377 words)

	European Southern Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an international astronomical organisation, composed and supported by ten countries from the European Union plus Switzerland and was created in 1962.
		It is famous for discovering a candidate to be farthest galaxy ever seen by humans, the Abell 1835 IR1916 galaxy, though this claim seems to be debunked by a series of new articles.
		Of the eighteen telescopes at La Silla Observatory, three are operated by ESO for use by the ESO astronomical community:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Southern_Observatory (430 words)

	The ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT)
		Paranal Observatory, ESO's second-generation observatory in the southern hemisphere, is located at an altitude of about 2600 m, ca.
		Paranal's workhorses are the four 8.2-m optical telescopes in the domes above.
		Paranal has its own aluminization chamber, in which the primary mirrors are re-coated once per year per telescope (one every 3 monts).
	www.atnf.csiro.au /people/mdahlem/obs/opt/vlt.html (439 words)

	Judgment 1854 (ILOAT) - Administrative Tribunal
		Some years ago, the ESO commenced a project to establish a Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal observatory, which is on a mountain at a distance of 130 km from the town of Antofagasta, about 1,200 kms north of Santiago.
		During that period, since the construction phase of the Paranal VLT was coming to an end and the VLT was expected to begin to operate in early 1998, the ESO was considering the reorganisation of the administrative structure required for the operative phase of the VLT.
		The complainant contends that the functions which he had been performing continued to be required even after the new Paranal observatory became operational, and that in fact the duties of the new post of "Paranal Administrator" were substantially the same as those of his former post.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/tribunal/fulltext/1854.htm (2980 words)

	Very Large Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The project is organized by the European Southern Observatory.
		VLT is located at the Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal, a 2,635 m high mountain in the Atacama desert in northern Chile.
		The VLT is operated by the European Southern Observatory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Very_Large_Telescope (1098 words)

	About Cerro Paranal
		The Paranal Observatory is located on the top of Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert in the northern part of Chile (map) and what is believed to be the driest area on Earth.
		Cerro Paranal is a 2,635-m high mountain, about 120 km south of the town of Antofagasta and 12 km inland from the Pacific Coast.
		More details about the Environmental and Observing Conditions on the Paranal Observatory are presented in various papers and reports.
	www.hq.eso.org /paranal/site/paranal.html (217 words)

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		The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the foremost intergovernmental European Science and Technology organisation in the field of astrophysics.
		The La Silla observatory is a small, self-supporting community in the middle of the desert.
		Cerro Paranal is a 2,635 m high mountain, about 120 km south of the city of Antofagasta and 12 km inland from the Pacific coast.
	www.vt-2004.org /outreach/gallery/vlt/images/Top20/esopre.html (3224 words)

	The president and the galaxy
		On December 9-10, 2004, the ESO Paranal Observatory was honoured with an overnight visit by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Chile, Ricardo Lagos and his wife, Mrs.
		The distinguished visitors were shown the various high-tech installations at the observatory, including the Interferometric Tunnel with the VLTI delay lines and the first Auxiliary Telescope.
		After one more visit to the telescope platform at the top of Paranal, the President and his wife left the Observatory in the morning of December 10, 2004, flying back to Santiago.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-12/eso-tpa122204.php (961 words)

	Late afternoon at Taruntius
		This photo (in near-infrared light at wavelength 2.3 µm) was obtained in the morning of April 30, 2002, with the NAOS-CONICA (NACO) adaptive optics (AO) camera mounted on the ESO VLT 8.2-m YEPUN telescope at the Paranal Observatory.
		It was made with the NAOS-CONICA (NACO) adaptive optics camera mounted on the ESO VLT 8.2-m YEPUN telescope at the Paranal Observatory.
		Although the atmosphere above Paranal was rather turbulent that morning - the nominal seeing was measured as 1.5 arcsec - and despite the use of an extended feature for the guiding, the NACO adaptive optics compensation achieved nearly theoretical image sharpness, about 0.068 arcsec for this waveband.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-08/eso-laa080902.php (1022 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; December 5, 1996
		Paranal, located in Chile's northern Atacama Desert 120 km south of Antofagasta, will be the largest and most modern telescope in the world upon its completion in 2001.
		Upon completion the Paranal observatory will contain a total of four telescopes, each utilizing a primary mirror of 8.2 meters in diameter and several smaller auxiliary mirrors.
		The Paranal observatory will be able to identify objects on the moon of a size smaller than one meter; objects 150 million kilometers distant will appear to be just one kilometer away.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h96/chip.19961205.html (2933 words)

	vlt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The VLT is a project of the European Southern Observatory organization.
		It is located at the Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal, a 2,635-m high mountain in the Atacama desert in northern Chile.
		The VLT consists of a cluster four of large telescopes, and an interferometer (VLTI) which will be used to resolve fine features.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /VLT.html (366 words)

	VLTI first fringes with two auxiliary telescopes at Paranal
		By the end of 2006, Paranal will be home to four operational ATs that may be placed at 30 different positions and thus be combined in a very large number of ways ("baselines").
		Located at the summit of the 2,600-m high Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert (Chile), ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is at the forefront of astronomical technology and is one of the premier facilities in the world for optical and near-infrared observations.
		With two more telescopes to be delivered within a year to the Paranal Observatory, ESO cements its position as world-leader in ground-based optical astronomy, providing Europe's scientists with the tools they need to stay at the forefront in this exciting science.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-03/eso-vff031005.php (1309 words)

	A Family Portrait of the Alpha Centauri System - VLT Interferometer Studies the Nearest Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For the observations of the A and B pair, the 0.35-m VLTI siderostats on the observing platform at the Paranal summit.
		His colleague Fräderic Thävenin at the Nice Observatory adds: "Alpha Centauri is not only the nearest stellar system - thanks to these studies, it is now also the best known one!".
		There is little doubt that the unprecedented precision that is achievable with the VLTI, together with highly sensitive asterosismic measurements from the new HARPS spectrometer now being installed at the ESO 3.6-m telescope on La Silla and powerful computer software now available for stellar modelling will greatly improve our knowledge of these stars.
	www.brightsurf.com /news/march_03/ESO_news_032103.html (1168 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| The Milky Way Above La Silla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Normally stationed at the Paranal Observatory, he seized the opportunity of a visit to ESO's other observatory site to produce this amazing view of the early evening scenery.
		The 3.6-m telescope began operations in 1976 and was ESO's largest telescope until the advent of the VLT at Paranal.
		At completion, it will be the largest and most sensitive astronomical observatory of its kind, being comprised of some sixty-four 12-m antennas located on a 10 km wide plateau at a 5000-m elevation in the Atacama Desert.
	www.rednova.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=86274 (541 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Pluto meets triple star
		One of the images obtained with the NAOS-CONICA (NACO) adaptive optics (AO) camera mounted on the ESO VLT 8.2-m YEPUN telescope at the Paranal Observatory in connection with a stellar occultation by Pluto on July 20, 2002.
		A first evaluation of the NACO data indicates that the Paranal site "missed" the upper layers of Pluto's atmosphere by a mere 200 km or so - this is equivalent to no more than one hundredth of an arcsec as projected on the sky.
		This effect, together with the large distance to the planet, manifests itself as a gradual decline of observed intensity of the stellar light, rather than an abrupt drop as this would be the case if the planet had no atmosphere.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0209/02pluto (1540 words)

	Encyclopedia: Very Large Telescope
		Cerro Paranal, a 2,635 m high mountain in the Atacama desert in northern Chile, famous for hosting the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the VLT Survey Telescope (VST).
		Additionally, the four 8.2m telescopes are accompanied by 4 smaller smaller Auxiliary Telescopes of 1.8m each (2 operational in 2005, the other 2 in 2006), which can be placed on different positions around the four big telescopes in order to provide better interferometric observations.
		The following is a list of astronomical observatories, along with initial dates of operation and location, if available.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Very-Large-Telescope (2049 words)

	ESO's Very Large Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Aerial view of the Paranal summit with the observatory platform on which most of the VLT buildings are in place.
		A view of the Paranal platform with the four 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescopes (UTs) and the foundations for the 1.8-m VLT Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) that together will be used as the VLT Interferometer (VLTI).
		The Paranal Inauguration on March 5, 1999, took place under this telescope that was tilted towards the horizon to accommodate nearly 300 persons on the observing floor.
	www.cosmiclight.com /imagegalleries/vlt.htm (349 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Perfect for washing and astronomy
		From the dreary northern mining town of Antofagasta, it is a two-hour drive through the desert to reach the Paranal Observatory.
		Some five kilometres down on the lower mountain slopes is the observatory base camp: a motley collection of assorted white buildings, including a dozen or so metal shipping containers, in which the luckless astronomers and engineers who work here used to live.
		While the relative merits of Europe's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the US Keck telescopes might be debated by the world's astronomers long into the night, no such debate surrounds their living quarters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2098000/2098910.stm (629 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Paranal power
		This spectacular image of the cosmos is one of the first pictures taken by the second optical telescope to come online at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert, Chile.
		Over the next few years, when all four main telescopes at the observatory are commissioned, the Paranal facility will become one of the most powerful in the world.
		It has been a busy time at the Paranal site, which is run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), an intergovernmental, European organisation for astronomical research.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_303000/303936.stm (276 words)

	Astronomy News & Links: New home for staff and visitors at VLT
		The concept for the Paranal Residencia emerged from a widely noted international architectural competition, won by Auer and Weber Freie Architekten from Munich (Germany), and with Dominik Schenkirz as principal designer.
		To the visitor who arrives at the Paranal Residencia from the harsh natural environment, the welcoming feeling under the dome is unexpected and instantly pleasant.
		The Republic of Chile, the host state for the ESO Paranal Observatory, is present with its emblematic painter Roberto Matta.
	www.astrophys.org /news/2002/020207_eso_vltnewhome.html (529 words)

	Flattest star ever seen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Recent observations with the VLT Interferometer (VLTI) at the ESO Paranal Observatory have allowed a group of astronomers to obtain by far the most detailed view of the general shape of a fast-spinning hot star, Achernar (Alpha Eridani), the brightest in the southern constellation Eridanus (The River).
		Test observations with the VLT Interferometer (VLTI) at the Paranal Observatory proceed well, and the astronomers have now begun to exploit many of these first measurements for scientific purposes.
		They were placed at selected positions on the VLT Observing Platform at the top of Paranal to provide a "cross-shaped" configuration with two "baselines" of 66 m and 140 m, respectively, at 90‘ angle, cf.
	www.brightsurf.com /news/june_03/ESO_news_061103.html (1047 words)

	Laser Focus World - High-accuracy laser metrology enhances the VLTI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is equivalent to the angle subtended by a €1 coin with a diameter of 23.25 mm from a distance of 4800 km.
		The European Southern Observatory (Munich, Germany), in collaboration with the Institute of Microtechnology of Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland), is developing a laser metrology system for the Paranal Observatory to monitor these instrumental disturbances to an accuracy of 5 nm.
		Samuel Lévéque is a photonic physicist at the European Southern Observatory, Munich, Germany; Yves Salvadé is senior scientist, René Dandliker is director of the applied optics group, and OLIVIER SCHERLER is research assistant at the Institute of Microtechnology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
	lfw.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Archives&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=140440 (1102 words)

	ut1fl-set1.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For ESO, engaged at Cerro Paranal in the construction of the VLT, it signified a pillar of stability for the future activities of this Organisation in Chile and thus for the development and operation of the VLT observatory into the next century.
		This picture was obtained on December 9, 1997 on the desert road known as the "Old Panamerica", at the turn-off towards the Paranal Observatory.
		An aerial view of the Paranal summit in late 1997 with the large observatory platform on which the many components of VLT were being installed.
	www.vt-2004.org /outreach/ut1fl/pr-pictures/ut1fl-set1.html (2930 words)

	First auxiliary telescope for the VLT Interferometer installed at Paranal
		European astronomers and engineers are opening a new chapter in the story of astronomical research and technology, by testing a new type of telescope at the ESO Paranal Observatory in Chile, the world's leading facility for ground-based optical astronomical research.
		ESO's Director General, Dr. Catherine Cesarsky, was at Paranal during the final phases of the installation of AT1: "At Paranal, in the Atacama Desert, we have created a hi-tech heaven to which we are now bringing this new telescope, the first Auxiliary Telescope.
		The installation of Auxiliary Telescope 1 at Paranal is another important step during the progressive implementation of the unique VLT Interferometer.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-01/eso-fat013004.php (1133 words)

	ESO's Two Observatories Merge
		Moreover, the infrastructure of La Silla is still used by many of the ESO member states for targeted projects such as the Swiss 1.2-m Euler telescope and the robotic telescope specialized in the follow-up of gamma-ray bursts detected by satellites, the Italian REM (Rapid Eye Mount).
		The APEX project is a collaboration between the Max Planck Society in Germany, Onsala Observatory in Sweden and ESO.
		With its remarkable resolution and unsurpassed surface area, the VLT is at the forefront of astronomical technology and is one of the premier facilities in the world for optical and near-infrared observations.
	www.spacemart.com /news/telescopes-05f.html (946 words)

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