La Silla Paranal Observatory: Instrumentation and Facilities offered for Period 106
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) invites proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 106 (1 October 2020 - 31 March 2021). The following instruments are offered in this period. Their main functionalities can be found in the Instruments Summary Table.
At La Silla
1) The installation and commissioning of SoXS – the Son of X-SHOOTER – is expected to start during Period 106. As a consequence, SOFI will be decommissioned one month before
At Paranal
| Telescope | Focus | ||||
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Nasmyth A
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Cassegrain
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Nasmyth B
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Incoherent Combined Coudé
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Interferometric
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| UT1 (Antu) | Visitor focus | FORS2 | KMOS | ESPRESSO | |
| UT2 (Kueyen) | FLAMES | VISIR |
UVES | ||
| UT3 (Melipal) | SPHERE | ||||
| UT4 (Yepun) | HAWK-I | MUSE | |||
| AT1 | |||||
| AT2 | |||||
| AT3 | |||||
| AT4 | |||||
| VISTA | VIRCAM | ||||
| VST | OmegaCAM | ||||