Instrument Science Team: Fernando Comeron (ESO, Chair), Stephane Charlot (IAP), Andrea Cimatti(Bologna), Jean-Paul Kneib (OAMP), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden) Within the next few years photometric redshifts ...

The staff at the ESO ARC provide support to the European users and to the science operations of the ALMA observatory. User support is provided together with the staff in the nodes within the European ...

Proposals for observing time on all facilities of the La Silla Paranal Observatory (VLT/I, NTT, 3.6m) must be submitted using the p1 web system: The new p1 user interface collects the same information ...

Extensive extinction measurements were made by Dr. H. Tug, using the 0.6-m Bochum telescope (see below). No correlation was found between extinction coefficients and direction of observation, and ...

ESO's mission is to provide its astronomical community with worldwide competitive ground-based observing capabilities to probe the Universe from its first billion year to the present time. In order to ...

alpha(2000) = 08h 43m 13.46s , delta(2000) = +03d 23' 55.1'' ...

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a focal reducer-type camera which is permanently mounted at the Cassegrain focus of the 2.2-m MPG/ESO telescope at La Silla. With field of view of 34'x33', Nyquist ...

OmegaCAM is the wide-field imager for the Cassegrain focus of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) on Paranal, a 2.6m modified Ritchey-Chretien alt-az telescope designed specifically for wide-field imaging.

This page contains information about the seeing on La Silla Observatory (ESO, Chile) as reported by the night assistants working in the 4 biggest telescopes (ESO NTT , ESO 3.60m , ESO/MPI 2.20m , ...

The 3.58-m New Technology Telescope (NTT) was the first in the world to have a computer-controled mirror ans ESO 3.6-m telescope.

An integral part of the commissioning of a new instrument at the VLT is the Science Verification phase. SV programmes will include a set of typical scientific observations that should verify and ...

NAOMI is the Adpative Optics that are used with VLTI/ATs. It consists in four sets of deformable mirrors with 241 actuators , 4x4 Shack-Hartman sensors and SPARTA Real Time Control operating in the ...