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Science Users Information  >  Observing Facilities  >  La Silla Facilities  >  La Silla Telescopes Overview  >  NTT  >  Telescope Operations
  07 Nov 2025
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NTT Operations

This web page contains information outdated . Consult the News and Recovery  in the wiki (ESO internal)

News and Recovery Procedures

  • NEWS
  • Recovery Procedures

General Operations

  • Day Operations
  • Night Operations
  • SOFI Operations
  • MOS Operations
  • MOS Data Collection Procedure
  • EFOSC2 Operations
  • ASM (ex-DIMM) Operations
  • La Silla All Sky Camera documentations
  • Astronomy Operations
  • Technical reports and actions
  • Reporting Procedures
  • Ultracam Pictures

Tools

  • Statistics and evolution
  • Monitoring Metrics
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  • DUT

Forms

  • SciOps Coordinator Daily Activities
  • NTT TCS OSF StartUp
  • GENERAL CHECK LIST FORM (postscript)
  • Weekly Sciops WS ReBoot (pdf)
  • Startup Check List Form (postscript)
  • Shutdown Check List Form (postscript)

Reference Data and Manuals

  • Documentation
  • NTT pointing model in a shell
  • How to Generate the ONECAL look-up Table (PDF)
  • Phone Directory
  • Reference Data
  • Startup
  • Remedy Access (ARWeb)
  • Get all SCIOPS, NTT, 3P6 and MET documents registered in Remedy

Optomechanical Maintenance

  • Spare parts exchanges and calibrations

Schedule

  • Observation Schedule - Query Form
  • La Silla Paranal Observatory Schedule (ESO Intranet)

Safety

  • Safety procedures

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Maintenance Plan

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