La Silla, the First Home for ESO’s Telescopes — ESO’s first observatory site Then and Now

ESO turns fifty this year, and to celebrate this important anniversary, we are showing you glimpses into our history. Once a month during 2012, a special Then and Now comparison Picture of the Week shows how things have changed over the decades at the La Silla and Paranal Observatory sites, the ESO offices in Santiago de Chile, and the Headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany.

This historical image was taken around 1970 from the La Silla dormitories, located lower on the mountain than the telescope domes. The photo looks up towards the highest point of the mountain, on the left. The metallic structure visible near the top of this peak is not a telescope, but a water tank for the site. The white dome in the centre of the image is that of the ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope, which started work in February 1972. On the far right of the image is the ESO 1-metre telescope, just visible over the ridge, and to the left of that one can just see the top of the Grand Prisme Objectif telescope.

More information: www.eso.org/public/images/comparisons/potw1214a/

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Taken on: April 2, 2012

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