Paranal Previous News
This page contains Paranal Telescope and Instrument news items for the previous years 2004 - 2005.Telescopes
2005
- December 16, 2005: UT1 recoating completed
- November 01, 2005: first light for AT3
- October 20, 2005: UT3 recoating completed
- June 22, 2005: UT2 recoating completed
- April 27, 2005: UT4 recoating completed
- February 2005: first fringes with two ATs with the VINCI and MIDI instruments
- February 2005: both VLTI Siderostats decommissioned
- January 2005: AT2 arrived on mountain top
2004
- January 2004: AT1 arrived on mountain top
Instruments
2005
- October 01, 2005: AMBER: start of Science Operation with 3 UTs
- October 01, 2005: MIDI: start of Science Operation with 2 ATs
- May 04, 2005: first light for the ULTRACAM visitor instrument at the Nasmyth A focus of Melipal (UT3)
- March 24, 2005: SINFONI early start of Science Operation
- March 20, 2005: VISIR early start of Science Operation
- March 01, 2005: New and uniform instrument webpages released
- February 2005: VINCI and MIDI: first fringes with two ATs
- January 2005: SINFONI Science Verification Data available for the August, October, and December 2004 runs.
- January 2005: VISIR Science Verification Data available for the runs between September and December 2004.
2004
- October 20, 2004: UVES: detector in the blue arm exchanged
- October 1, 2004: Rapid Response Mode (RRM) available for FORS1, FORS2, ISAAC, and UVES
- July 9, 2004: SINFONI: first light for SPIFFI with the AO module
- July 2004: MIDI Science Demonstration Data Release
- June 1, 2004: SINFONI: first light for AO module on Yepun (UT4, Cassegrain focus)
- June 1, 2004: AMBER: first fringes with three UTs
- June 2004: NACO: New Conica detector (Aladdin3) available
- June 2004: FORS1 moved from Antu (UT1) to Kueyen (UT2)
- May 2004: FORS2 moved from Yepun (UT4) to Antu (UT1)
- May 28, 2004: AMBER: first fringes with two UTs
- April 30, 2004: VISIR: first light on Melipal (UT3, Cassegrain focus)
- April 1, 2004: Rapid Response Mode (RRM) available for UVES
- April 1, 2004: MIDI: start of Science Operations
- March 20, 2004: AMBER: first fringes with two siderostats