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	Redorbit - Telescopes/Observ. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the U.S. follow-on to the Einstein Observatory.
		The original low frequency telescope was superseded in 1976 by a 14-m diameter radome-enclosed antenna for use at high radio frequencies (mm wavelengths), built primarily to study the physics and chemistry of interstellar clouds, circumstellar envelopes, planetary atmospheres, and comets.
		Michelle: A mid-infrared spectrometer and imager for the UKIRT and Gemini telescopes
	www.redorbit.com /space/astronomy/telescopes_observatories (10456 words)

	Astronomical survey projects
		DENIS is a deep complete survey of the astronomical sources of the Southern Sky in 2 near-infrared bands (J at 1.25 micron & K at 2.16 micron) and one optical band (I at 0.8 micron) simultaneously, using a one meter ground-based telescope at La Silla (Chile), with limiting magnitudes 18.5, 16.5 and 14.0, respectively.
		DENIS is a deep astronomical survey of the Southern Sky in two near-infrared bands (J at 1.25 µ and K at 2.16 µ) and one optical band (I at 0.8 µ) simultaneously, conducted by a European consortium, using a one meter telescope (ESO, La Silla).
		The VST project is a cooperation between the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory (OAC) for the study, design and construction of a wide field alt-az telescope of 2.6 m aperture, specialized for high quality astronomical imaging to be installed and operated on Cerro Paranal, next to ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
	www.cv.nrao.edu /fits/www/yp_survey.html (4599 words)

	VLT Survey Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The VLT Survey Telescope or VST is a proposed 2.5m telescope with a wide field imager intended to aid the VLT in its scientific aims, and is located at Paranal Observatory in Chile.
		It is planned to have a one square degree field of view and aiming to reach magnitudes as faint as R of 25.
		It would work primarily on surveys of large areas of the sky from which individual targets could be selected for closer study using the greater power of the 4 8m class telescopes that make up the VLT.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/VLT_Survey_Telescope (159 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In February 1997, the Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, M. Capaccioli, appointed a Scientific Steering Committe to study the scientific case for a 2.5m Alt-Az telescope for wide field imaging, to be proposed to the European Southern Observatories (ESO) for installation at the Paranal Observatory (Chile).
		proposed to design and build, at its own expenses, a 2.5 m telescope for wide field imaging to be put on Paranal, in collaboration with ESO and with the contribution (scientific, technical and /or financial) of any other interested institutions.
		The VST optical design is optimized for a 16k x 16k CCD mosaic camera with a 15 micron pixel, equivalent to 1 square deg.
	oacosf.na.astro.it /vst (243 words)

	index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		surveys of smaller or larger parts of the sky have been performed by wide-field telescopes, paving the way for subsequent work at the limits of the largest available ground-based telescopes.
		For instance, a complete photographic survey of the sourthern sky (declination < -17.5°) was carried out in the 1970's with the ESO 1-metre Schmidt Telescope in support of the work at the 3.6-m telescope at the ESO La Silla observatory.
		The new generation of imaging surveys will, without doubt, be the backbone of future research and are likely to be as long-lived as their earlier counterparts, which have served the astronomical community so well over the past decades.
	www.vt-2004.org /outreach/press-rel/pr-1998/pr-10-98.html (1552 words)

	The Very Large Telescope Project
		The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit.
		The four 8-m telescopes supplemented with 3 auxilliary 1 m telescopes may also be used in interferometric mode providing high angular resolution imaging.
		Full operations of all telescopes is expected shortly after the turn of the century.
	www.eso.org /projects/vlt (321 words)

	VST, Announcement of Opportunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC) are jointly planning a 2.5-m telescope to be erected adjacent to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal in Chile in the year 2001.
		This telescope, which has been given the name VLT Survey Telescope (VST), is designed to deliver a field of view of 1 x 1 square degree.
		In exchange for the contributions made, the partner consortium will receive a number of guaranteed nights corresponding to the share of the total cost of the telescope, the instrument, and the operation during the lifetime of the instrument (assumed to be of order 10 years).
	www.eso.org /projects/vst (522 words)

	Safety Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The VST telescope project development from April to September 1999 was first concerned with the completion and documentation of the VST telescope design for the VST PDR Follow Up Review hold on 15 April 99 at ESO Garching and later on with the execution of the actions identified thereby.
		The VST project development included the acquisition of one new engineer (mechanics) and the replacement due to turnover of one engineer (software) in the staff of the Technology Working Group, and the acquisition of two new research members in the staff of the Science Verification Working Group.
		Definition of commissioning and SV procedures for the VST telescope and definition of a two-step commissioning and SV plan based on the use of a test camera with a small FOV for telescope commissioning followed by a SV phase based on a wide FOV camera.
	vst.na.astro.it /report_0499_0999.html (1731 words)

	4 OmegaCam camera for the VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
		It is expected to operate for a period of ten years, and at least during the first 3-5 years of operations of the VST the OmegaCam is foreseen to be the only instrument on this telescope.
		The remaining time is labeled as guaranteed time for the consortia involved in the construction of the telescope and the camera.
		The VST and OmegaCam are built to provide an observing facility for the purpose of selecting targets for follow-up observations at the VLT, but also to conduct stand-alone observing programmes that require wide-field imaging.
	www.strw.leidenuniv.nl /annual-reports/annrep00/node65.html (361 words)

	Celebrating 5 years of the Very Large Telescope
		The VLT Interferometry has already shown to be a very efficient tool to measure the diameter of very small star or to perform the first interferometry of an extragalactic object.
		In joining ESO, UK astronomers have gained access to the four 8.2-metre telescopes that comprise the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and to the several 1.8-metre telescopes that make up the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI); These facilities are located in the northern part of the Atacama desert in Chile.
		These survey observations will be made in several wavebands in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, with the capability of adding a visible region camera later.
	www.pparc.ac.uk /Nw/VLT5.asp (1069 words)

	Telescopes
		The Hobby-Eberly telescope (HET) is a new 9 meter telescope, built at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory near Ft.
		The KLENOT telescope was constructed using a 1.06-m primary mirror and a primary focus corrector to obtain a plane field of view 33 x 33 arcminutes.
		The SOAR telescope is a Project for a 4.2-meter aperture telescope funded by a partnership between the USA National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), the Country of Brazil, Michigan State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
	www.cv.nrao.edu /fits/www/yp_telescope.html (12332 words)

	VLT First Light
		To this end, surveys of smaller or larger parts of the sky have been performed by wide-field telescopes, paving the way for subsequent work at the limits of the largest available ground-based telescopes.
		It is a joint European project that is conducted at the 1-m ESO telescope by a consortium of 20 astronomical institutes.
		The large mirror surface of the VLT UT1 and its ability to produce very sharp images, ensures that faint objects may be observed extremely efficiently.
	www.xs4all.nl /~carlkop/vltfirst.html (3632 words)

	Outlook
		The four unit telescopes of the VLT can be combined, either with each other or with additional (auxiliary) smaller telescopes, to act as an interferometer.
		Finally, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), which consists of two 8.4-meter telescopes mounted on the same platform, was developed and constructed for the specific purpose of optical and NIR interferometry and had first light in October 2005.
		The joint collecting area of these telescopes has been increased by a large factor over the past decade: only the telescopes shown in the upper row plus the 5-meter Palomar telescope and the 6-meter SAO were in operation before 1993.
	www.astro.uni-bonn.de /~peter/Book/outlook.html (4275 words)

	V S T - V L T S U R V E Y T E L E S C O P E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The VLT Survey Telescope is a 2.61 m diameter imaging telescope conceived for the Paranal Observatory to support the VLT through its wide-field capabilities and to perform stand-alone survey projects.
		The telescope will be equipped with just one focal plane instrument, OmegaCAM, a large format (16k x16k pixels) CCD camera built by the international consortium of the same name.
		Fruit of a joint venture between ESO and the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory (OAC) of Naples, now research centre of the newly established Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), the VST is expected to become operational at Paranal in the spring of 2006.
	www.na.astro.it /oacweb/vst/index.html (194 words)

	ESO's Two Observatories Merge
		Moreover, the infrastructure of La Silla is still used by many of the ESO member states for targeted projects such as the Swiss 1.2-m Euler telescope and the robotic telescope specialized in the follow-up of gamma-ray bursts detected by satellites, the Italian REM (Rapid Eye Mount).
		With its remarkable resolution and unsurpassed surface area, the VLT is at the forefront of astronomical technology and is one of the premier facilities in the world for optical and near-infrared observations.
		In addition to the state-of-the-art Very Large Telescope and the four Auxiliary Telescopes of 1.8-m diameter which can move to relocate in up to 30 different locations feeding the interferometer, Paranal will also be home to the 2.6-m VLT Survey telescope (VST) and the 4.2-m VISTA IR survey telescope.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/telescopes-05f.html (787 words)

	Research @ AIfA/IAEF : Collaborations
		The COMBO-17 survey has imaged 1 square degree of sky in 17 optical filters using the Wide Field Imager at the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope on La Silla.
		The ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) project is an ongoing effort to carry out public imaging surveys in support of VLT programmes.
		OmegaCAM is a 1 square degree wide field, optical, 16k X 16k camera for the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), which is expected to become operational at Paranal during the year 2003.
	www.astro.uni-bonn.de /~webiaef/research/collaborations.shtml (661 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: GRID Links
		In much the same way as a real observatory consists of telescopes, each with a collection of unique astronomical instruments, the VO consists of a collection of data centres each with unique collections of astronomical data, software systems and processing capabilities.
		Firstly, there is an explosion in the size of astronomical data sets delivered by new large facilities like the ESO VLT, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), and VISTA.
		If large surveys and catalogues could be joined into a uniform and interoperating "digital universe", entire new areas of astronomical research would become feasible.
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=35130 (440 words)

	Optical Astronomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Center's mission is to develop state-of-the-art adaptive optics systems for the many large telescope projects currently under development by Steward Observatory in collaboration with a number of partners worldwide.
		REACT is a consortium of optical telescopes that have agreed to work together toward a common goal of comprehensive, multiwavelength study of gamma-ray burst afterglows.
		The SUBARU is an 8.3-m diameter new-generation telescope being constructed and to be operated by the National Astronomical Observatory, under the Ministry of Education of Japan.
	www.vilspa.esa.es /astroweb/yp_optical.html (5635 words)

	OmegaTranS: Omegacam Transit Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		OmegaTranS will make use of the Omegacam CCD camera on the newly built VLT survey Telescope (operational early 2006).
		The VLT survey telescope (VST), now under construction in Napels, is a 2.6m modified Ritchey-Cretien telescope which will stand on Paranal.
		OmegaCAM is a 1 square degree wide field, optical, 16k X 16k camera for the VLT Survey Telescope (VST).
	www.strw.leidenuniv.nl /~snellen/Omegatrans/technical.html (213 words)

	Astronomical Survey Projects Resources
		AKARI (formerly ASTRO-F) is an infrared sky survey mission from Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of the Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) with the participation of the European Space Agency (ESA).
		Pan-STARRS - the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System - is a wide-field imaging facility being developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.
		The primary reference for a description of the survey is: Bock, D., Large, M. and Sadler, E. http://www.astrop.physics.usyd.edu.au/SUMSS/
	cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr /astroweb/survey.html (4684 words)

	Employment Opportunities
		The successful candidates will have access to the Very Large Telescope in Chile, the twin 8.4 meter Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona and the APEX submillimeter telescope in Chile.
		In addition to these facilities, MPIA astronomers extensively use the 2.2 m MPG telescope on La Silla, the 2.2 and 3.5 m telescopes on Calar Alto, and the IRAM and NRAO facilities.
		As part of its surveys program, the galaxies and cosmology group at the Institute participates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project (and its extension), and anticipates substantial observing time at the VLT Survey Telescope.
	sings.stsci.edu /employment/index.htm (261 words)

	SPACE.com -- Orion Nebula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the past couple of years, several of the world's most powerful ground- and space-based telescopes have made detailed infrared studies of the Orion Nebula and the Trapezium Cluster, but the VLT image shown here is the "deepest" wide-field image obtained so far.
		In the next year, astronomers hope for even sharper images of the Orion Nebula and other objects when one of the four VLT telescopes is equipped with adaptive optics to eliminate the blurring effects of the Earth's atmosphere.
		Astronomers hope to continue to use the VLT to answer the questions about the "very low mass objects" in the Orion Nebula.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/orion_vlt_010118-3.html (499 words)

	Valentijn's Homepage
		The center is building and supporting an advanced Survey Information System: the virtual survey telescope.
		At the center, ~15 staff is involved in research and development of data basing and processing of very large data sets.
		KIDS a 1500 Square degree ESO Public Survey using OmegaCAM at the VLT Survey Telescope
	www.astro.rug.nl /~valentyn (210 words)

	IMPRS on Astrophysics: PhD projects at the IMPRS
		Our near-infrared high resolution cameras at the NTT and VLT were crucial for the key results on the Galactic center, our Infrared Space Observatory short wavelength spectrometer SWS for the study of ultraluminous infrared galaxies.
		We built, e.g., the FORS instruments for the VLT, and LRS (http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/het/het.html) for the 10m Hobby-Eberly-Telescope in Texas (which we share with the Universities of Texas, Penn State University, Standford and Göttingen).
		We are also leading the international consortium carrying out the ESO Distant Cluster Survey a Large Programme on the ESO VLT and NTT telescopes which has assembled data on 20 high redshift galaxy clusters in order to understand the evolution of clusters and their member galaxies.
	www.imprs-astro.mpg.de /phd_projects.html (3601 words)

	Durham 2006 Cosmology Conference
		For cosmology these surveys also offer the possibility of high precision cosmological tests to constrain the equation of state of the dark energy.
		The aim of this meeting was to review progress from current surveys and to discuss the goals and designs of future surveys, all in the light of the latest results in cosmology and structure formation.
		The conference was sponsored by the EU Research and Training Network SISCO (Spectroscopic and Imaging Surveys for Cosmology).
	www.dur.ac.uk /cosmology06 (172 words)

	Deep Field Study Opens A Window On Distant Universe
		It is conducted with the ESO Wide Field Imager (WFI), a 67-million pixel advanced camera attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
		As a pilot project at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), the OACDF aims at providing a large photometric database for deep extragalactic studies, with important by-products for galactic and planetary research.
		The study also serves to gather experience in the proper and efficient handling of very large data sets, preparing for the arrival of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) with the 1 x 1 deg^2 OmegaCam facility.
	unisci.com /stories/20012/0412012.htm (180 words)

	NOVA Documents
		OmegaCAM: The 16k × 16k Survey Camera for the VLT Survey Telescope
		The OmegaCAM 16K x 16K CCD Detector System for the ESO VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
		The Secondary Standards Programme for OmegaCAM at the VST
	www.astro-wise.org /doc_nova.shtml (215 words)

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