VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a 4-m class specialized wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera VIRCAM (VISTA ...

PIONIER is a H-band 4-beam combiner instrument at the VLT interferometer. It is originally a visitor instrument that by agreement with IPAG is offered to the ESO community from P96 onwards as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paranal Science Operations (PSO) is the department of the European Southern Observatory responsible for the scientific operation of the telescopes at the Paranal Observatory site. These facilities ...

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 ...

The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere has as primary mission to build and operate state-of-the-art facilities for the advancement of astronomical research. The ...

E-ELT PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION Project documents E-ELT Top Level Requirements Observatory Instruments ELT-CAM (now MICADO) ELT-IFU (now HARMONI) ELT-MIDIR (now METIS) ELT-HIRES (now ANDES) ...

The complete adapter-rotator units comprise two major subsystems:the opto-mechanical part and the control system. The Opto-Mechanicalpart consists of five main sub-components: The Large Structure The ...

Several teams provide support in regard to ESO's telescopes and instruments, e.g. support for observing proposal preparation and submission, observation scheduling, data flow operation, information ...

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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.