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ESO/ST-ECF Calibration Workshop Announcement
ESO / ST-ECF WORKSHOP ON
CALIBRATING AND UNDERSTANDING HST AND ESO INSTRUMENTS
EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY, GARCHING BEI MUNCHEN
25 - 28 APRIL, 1995
Please find below the preliminary programme of the workshop together
with registration and accommodation request forms which should be
completed and returned as soon as possible.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Tuesday, April 25
MIDAS Users Meeting
14:00 MIDAS Status Report P. Grosbol
15:00 Questions and Answers
15:30 Coffee
16:00 - 17:00 Demos
Wednesday, April 26
08:30 - 09:15 Registration
09:15 Welcome R. Giacconi
09:20 Introduction P. Benvenuti
Session 1 - The calibration of HST Instruments. A case study
09:30 Overview of HST Calibration E. Schreier
10:00 FOC R. Jedrzejewski
10:30 WF/PC II J. McKenty
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 FOS - GHRS J. Walsh
12:00 Astrometry and OTA performance R. Gilmozzi
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Predictive calibration strategies based on instrument S/W models -
FOS as a case study M. Rosa
14:30 NIC/STIS Ch. Blades
15:15 ACE J. Crocker
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 HST calibration and user support in historical perspective:
lessons learned E. Schreier
16:45 Round Table Discussion: "What can VLT learn from HST?"
17:30 Welcome Reception
Thursday, April 27
Session 2 - Current ESO Instruments
09:00 The role of the new ESO Instrument Division G. Monnet
09:20 Monitoring and calibration at the telescope of the ESO CCD detectors
J. Beletic
09:40 EFOSC1 H. Schwarz
10:00 Spectropolarimetry with EFOSC1 S. di Serego Alighieri / J. Walsh
10:20 CASPEC and ECHELEC W. Verschueren
10:40 Calibration plan for EMMI A. Zijlstra
11:00 Coffee Break
10:20 Calibration and automation of the NTT active optics system
L. Noethe / Ph. Gitton
11:40 Acquisition, cleaning and calibrating of groundbased thermal IR data
H.-U. Kaeufl
12:00 IRSPEC - IRAC1-2 R. Gredel
12:20 Observation preparation and data extraction for multiobject
spectrographs D. Minniti
12:40 Lunch
Session 3 - VLT Instruments
14:00 Calibration issues with the first generation VLT instruments
J.G. Cuby
14:20 Near IR calibration issues - ISAAC J. Spyromilio
14:40 UVES H. Hensberge / P. Ballester
15:00 Coffee Break
15:20 FORS S. Moehler
15:40 Observing extended objects with chopping restrictions on 8m class
telescopes in the thermal IR H.-U. Kaeufl
16:00 CONICA TBD
16:20 Performance monitoring of VLT telescopes TBD
16:40 VLTI calibration issues O. von der Luehe / A. Quirrenbach
Friday, April 28
Session 4 - Other Astronomical Projects
09:00 WIYN J. Percival
09:30 ISO A. Moneti
10:00 DENIS TBD
10:20 2dF K. Taylor
10:40 ROSAT TBD
11:00 Coffee Break
11:20 Gemini M. Mountain
11:40 Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
S. di Serego Alighieri / F. Pasian / M. Pucillo
12:00 Contributed paper
12:30 Lunch
Session 5 - Software Environments
14:00 On-line MIDAS K. Banse
14:20 MIDAS data organizer as a calibration tool M. Peron
14:40 ESO Data Reduction CookBook R. Warmels
15:00 Coffee Break
15:20 VLT on-line data flow P. Grosbol
15:40 HST pipeline processing R. Hanisch
16:00 AIPS ++ TBD
16:20 Contributed papers
17:00 End of Workshop
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Registration Form
Please complete this section and return it as soon as possible
to the address given below.
[PLEASE PRINT]
LAST NAME:
FIRST NAME:
INSTITUTE:
DEPARTMENT:
STREET:
CITY:
POSTAL CODE:
COUNTRY:
TELEPHONE:
FAX:
E-MAIL:
I am interested in:
___ attending the Workshop
___ presenting the following paper(s) on (please attach an abstract):
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___ oral preferred ___ poster preferred ___ no preference
DATE: .................. SIGNATURE: .......................................
Please COMPLETE and return this form by 3 MARCH, 1995, to:
European Southern Observatory
Britt Sjoeberg
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany
Fax: (+49 89) 320-23-62 / 320-06-480
Tel: (+49 89) 320-060 / 320-06-291
E-mail: calconf@eso.org; bsjoeber@eso.org
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Accommodation Request Form
[PLEASE PRINT]
LAST NAME:
FIRST NAME:
INSTITUTE:
DEPARTMENT:
STREET:
CITY:
POSTAL CODE:
COUNTRY:
TELEPHONE:
TELEFAX:
E-MAIL:
ARRIVAL date: __________________ DEPARTURE date: ___________________
NOTE: Rooms have been reserved in the hotels near ESO (i.e., in Garching,
13 km north of Munich). Prices (incl. breakfast) are DM 115-135 for a
single room, and DM 145-180 for a double room. All rooms are with shower or
bath. Bus transport between these hotels and the conference venue will
be provided on the days of the workshop. Please mark your preference:
I need a HOTEL RESERVATION: SINGLE room ___ DOUBLE room ___
(to be shared with
........................)
I shall make my OWN ARRANGEMENTS: ___
COMMENTS:
DATE: ...................SIGNATURE: ........................................
Please COMPLETE and return this form as soon as possible to:
European Southern Observatory
Britt Sjoeberg
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
D-85748 Garching, Germany
Fax: (+49 89) 320-23-62 / 320-06-480
Tel: (+49 89) 320-060 / 320-06-291
E-mail: calconf@eso.org; bsjoeber@eso.org