MUSE is an Integral Field Spectrograph. It splits the field of view into 24 image segments or channels which are further sliced into 48 slices or mini slits, giving a total of 1152 mini slits. Each ...

The 2.2m telescope at La Silla has been in operation since early 1984 and is on indefinite loan to ESO from the Max Planck Gesellschaft. The telescope time is shared between the MPI and ESO Observers.

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 ...

HARPS is the ESO facility for the measurement of radial velocities with the highest accuracy currently available. It is fibre-fed by the Cassegrain focus of the 3.6m telescope in La Silla. The ...

The ESO 3.6m Telescope was commissioned in 1977, and completely upgraded in 1999. In 2004 a new secondary mirror cell was manufactured, improving considerably the image quality of the telescope. In ...

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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 ...

The Call for Proposals for the regular cycles is currently closed. You can no longer submit proposals for the regular cycles. The next call will be released in July 2027. For your convenience you can ...

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 , ...

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 ...

Based on the FAIR principles to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, publications making use of ESO observational data must include the following statement in a footnote or in ...

The M2 Unit is an opto mechanical system constituted by a convex hyperbolic Beryllium mirror ("M2 mirror"), by the electromechanism used tosupport the mirror and to control its position, and by the ...