The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental ...

The HAWAII 1024 x 1024 readout is structured in four independent quadrants having four outputs. Six CMOS-level clocks, two 5V power supplies (one analog and one digital), on e fixed dc bias and one ...

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 first commissioning runs of the MUSE in Narrow-Field Mode (NFM) were held April and June 2018. During this commissioning, the emphasis was mainly on evaluating the ground-layer AO performance and ...

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 ...

What is the NAOS Preparation Software? The goal of NAOS Preparation Software (NAOS PS) is to assist the observer during the preparation of NAOS-CONICA observations. It allows him/her to simulate the ...

Institute codes can be found using the following pull-down menus. First look up the country corresponding to the affiliation of your Co-I(s) and then find the codes corresponding to your Co-I(s) ...

The ESO Science Newsletter is intended to keep the community informed about current activities of interest at ESO. The newsletter appears roughly every two to three months or whenever important news ...

The ESO Very Large Telescope consists of an array of four 8-meter telescopes which can work independently or in combined mode. In this latter mode the VLT provides the total light collecting power of ...

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 ...

The FEROS instrument is a state-of-the-art bench-mounted, high-resolution, environmentally controlled, astronomical Échelle spectrograph. It is opertated at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in ...

The prime objective of the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument for the VLT is the discovery and study of new extra-solar giant planets orbiting nearby stars by ...