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 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 ...

The staff at the ESO ARC provide support to the European users and to the science operations of the ALMA observatory. User support is provided together with the staff in the nodes within the European ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 web application SkyCalc provides a web interface to obtain models of transmission and radiance spectra in physical units, calculated on ESO servers with this model for configurable observation ...