Gallery

  • Residencia main entrance
  • The „Residencia“ in the Atacama desert
  • Instrument in the Paranal integration hall
  • High tech terminal
  • Leisure in Paranal
  • Cryostat move into the VLTI lab
  • Open cryostat during integration
  • Installation of a HAWAII detector
  • A look into the GRAVITY optics
  • Open cryostat during integration
  • A fiber coupler system during final testing
  • Beam analyzer prism
  • Assembly of the fiber coupler subsystems
  • Highlight talk on grav. redshift of S2 at IAU in Vienna 2018
  • Inside the telescope
  • GRAVITY „first light“
  • Vicunas in the Atacama desert
  • Perito Moreno glacier (Patagonia)
  • Atacama desert
  • Torres del Paine
  • Cryotest of optics
  • Move into the VLTI lab accomplished
  • Connecting 10km of cables and fibers
  • One of the 20 off-axis parabolic mirrors