Important Links for Period 93
Information on Instruments & Facilities
La Silla Paranal Observatory |
Homepage for the La Silla and Paranal Observatory facilities |
Instrumentation and Facilities in Period 93 |
Links to technical information for Period 93 |
Instruments available in Period 93 |
Instruments and facilities in Period 93 |
Foreseen changes for Period 93 |
Period 93 technical news items |
The APEX telescope | APEX Homepage |
Observing with APEX |
Applying for time on APEX facilities |
Exposure time calculators (ETCs) |
ETCs for Paranal and La Silla instrumentation |
Proposal Preparation
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Observing conditions | Observing constraint definitions for Phase 1 and 2 |
Overheads table for Paranal instrumentation |
Guidelines for calculating overheads |
Telescope demand and pressure | Telescope demand & large programme commitment |
Guaranteed Time Observations | GTO targets protected against duplication |
Public Survey page | Public survey descriptions & Survey fields protected against duplication |
OPC Categories and sub-categories | OPC scientific category definitions |
Proposal preparation tools and services | Ephemerides to determine when objects are best observed, links to weather pages and useful data catalogues and archives |
The ESOFORM package | Information on the ESOFORM proposal package |
Late Breaking News | Information as it becomes available after the release of the Call for Proposals |
Useful information
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Paranal Site Details | Paranal Site, climate and seismical information |
VLT UT Performance | VLT Unit telescope performance, guiding and tracking |
Visibility on the VLT | Sky accessibility and vignetting by neighbouring telescopes on the VLT |
Data Products |
Data Products and Phase 3 |
Calibration Plans and Pipelines |
Calibration plans and Pipelines for VLT/I instrumentation |
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