Quality Control and
Data Processing

OmegaCAM is the wide-field imager located at the Cassegrain focus of the 2.6m VLT Survey Telescope (VST) on Paranal. OmegaCAM consists of 32 e2v CCD's each with 2048x4100 pixels, giving a total of 16k x 16k pixels that cover 1 square degree of sky at a pixel scale of 0.214 arcsec/pixel.

Schematic picture of the OmegaCAM field geometry

A detailed schematic layout of the detector geometry, its CCD numbering, and a description of available filters is given here:

OmegaCAM detectors and their layout

OmegaCAM filter configuration

Refer also to:

• the OmegaCAM instrument pages for general information and news about the instrument
• the ESO pipeline pages for the pipeline release
• the OmegaCAM-specific query form of the ESO archive for data downloads.