In this page, you will find all the manuals needed to prepare and analyze your observations with MIDI. Please be sure todownload that corresponding to the period in ...

GRAVITY is not a monolithic instrument. It is a collection of sub-systems that aims to precisely control the wavefront of the incoming light and its path through the VLTI system before the actual ...

This page provides information about Observation Block (OB) creation only for users assigned Visitor Mode time at ESO telescopes. Astronomers having obtained observing time in Service Mode should ...

ESO's ruling body is its Council, which delegates day to day responsibility to the Executive under ESO's Director General. Other governing bodies of ESO are: the Finance Committee (FC), the Scientific ...

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 ...

La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. These telescopes are: the 3.5-m New ...

ESO operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory, providing some of the world's largest and most advanced observational facilities at three sites in Northern Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. The ...

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 ...

The VISIR performance estimates listed on this page are based on observations of mid-infrared calibration standard stars. Sensitivities have not changed much with the relocation of VISIR from UT3 ...

All the information about the instrument itself, its modes and their characteristics. Since Period 114, to be used for Phase I and Phase II preparation. (no changed wrt to P113) Also valid in ...

ESO is committed to creating a work environment that is safe, professional and of mutual trust where diversity and inclusion are valued, and where everyone is entitled to be treated with courtesy and ...

AMBER is a spectro-interferometric instrument for the VLTI working in the near-infrared. It is offered in the H-band and K-band. The instrument combines and disperses three beams arriving from three ...