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.

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 ...

On Tuesday and Wednesday you will be given the opportunity to deliver a flash presentation of your poster during the poster session. Each presentation will have a duration of two minutes. Please, save ...

Garching lies about 13 km north-east of Munich and 17 km south-west of Munich international airport (Franz Josef Strauss). Please follow these instructions to travel to Garching. To consult the time ...

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 ...

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 ...

The submission of the Phase 2 package for approved Director's Discretionary Time (DDT) Proposals must follow the same procedure as regular programmes, described in the Instructions for Phase 2 ...

NIRPS, the Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher at the ESO La Silla 3.6m telescope is dedicated to the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets. Like HARPS is a fibre-fed, high-resolution, cross ...

The ESO Users Committee (UC) is made of representatives of the ESO users in each member state and includes also a representative from Australia and the host country Chile. It advises the ESO Director ...

This tutorial provides a step-by-step example of the preparation of an OB with FORS2, the Focal Reducer/Low Dispersion Spectrograph at the VLT on Cerro Paranal. Starting with P102, observing ...

The ESO Optical/Infrared Telescopes Science Operations Policies document, approved at the 154 th Council meeting in June 2020, describes the policies applied to the selection of observations, the ...