ESOcast 116: Success or Failure: How to Get Observing Time

ESOcast 116 explores how astronomers request time to use an ESO telescope, and how ESO’s Observing Programmes Committee, embarking on its one-hundredth meeting, examines and judges these proposals in order to ensure that ESO is making the best use of its telescopes to advance our knowledge and understanding of the Universe.

Credit:

ESO.

Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Editing: Herbert Zodet and Nico Bartmann.
Written by: Hannah Dalgleish, Lauren Fuge and Richard Hook.
Music: STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com).
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.
Footage and photos: ESO, B. Tafreshi (twanight.org), C. Malin (christophmalin.com), Gianluca Lombardi (glphoto.it), ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, F. Char, L. Calçada/spaceengine.org and F. Kamphues.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.