On Paranal ESO operates the ESO Very Large Telescope VLT with four 8.2m telescopes the Unit Telescopes or short UTs. Each UT provides one Cassegrain and two Nasmyth focus stations for facility instruments. One Nasmyth focus is available for visitor instruments. In addition each UT is equipped with a Coude focus station from which the light can be coherently combined in the interferometric focus.

Telephone: +49 89 320060
Website: http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/