La Silla Paranal Observatory: Instrumentation and Facilities offered for Period 103
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) invites proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 103 (1 April 2019 - 30 September 2019). The following instruments are offered in this period. Their main functionalities can be found in the Instruments Summary Table.
At La Silla
Telescope
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Focus
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|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasmyth A
|
Cassegrain
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Nasmyth B
|
Fibre fed from Cassegrain
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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(1) Nasmyth B is the recommended focus for a visitor instrument on the NTT.
At Paranal
| Telescope | Focus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasmyth A
|
Cassegrain
|
Nasmyth B
|
Incoherent Combined Coudé
|
Interferometric
|
|
| UT1 (Antu) | NACO | FORS2 | KMOS | ESPRESSO | |
| UT2 (Kueyen) | FLAMES | XSHOOTER | UVES | ||
| UT3 (Melipal) | SPHERE | SINFONI (*) | |||
| UT4 (Yepun) | HAWK-I | MUSE | |||
| AT1 | |||||
| AT2 | |||||
| AT3 | |||||
| AT4 | |||||
| VISTA | VIRCAM | ||||
| VST | OmegaCAM | ||||
(*) Update: SINFONI was decommissioned on June 24th.
At APEX
Telescope
|
Focus
|
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|---|---|---|---|
Nasmyth A
|
Cassegrain
|
Nasmyth B
|
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| nFLASH | |||
| SEPIA | |||
| Visitor instrument | |||