A nice group picture taken in the New Integration Hall of the Paranal basecamp. From Left to right : Eddy Elswijk (Institute NOVA-ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands), Tobias Maurer (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at Heidelberg, Germany), Michael Lehmitz (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany), Jean-Michel Clausse (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France), Werner Laun (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany), Pierre Cruzalèbes (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice,France), Ralf Klein (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg,Germany), Felix Bettonvil (Institute NOVA-ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands), Pierre Antonelli (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice,France), Aurélie Marcotto (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice,France), Christophe Bailet (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice,France), Paul Bristow (European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany).
At the left of the picture, the two reassembled MATISSE cryostats can be seen. They contain the 2 Cold Optic systems. At the right and at the back, the Warm Optics table can be distinguished. All the Optomechanical elements are mounted, pre-aligned and their fonctions are currently under test.