The 2.2m telescope at La Silla has been in operation since early 1984 and is on indefinite loan to ESO from the Max Planck Gesellschaft. The telescope time is shared between the MPI and ESO Observers.

The European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is motivated by a wide range of scientific challenges encountered by modern astronomy. This section of the ELT web pages aims to provide information about ...

alpha(2000) = 04h 50m 36.69s , delta(2000) = +08d 54' 00.7'' ...

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is the world-largest ground-based facility for observations in themillimeter/submillimeter regime located on the ...

The 3.6m New Technology Telescope (NTT) saw first light in March 1989. CCD frames were obtained on which stellar images had FWHM diameters of 0.33, indicating the excellent imaging quality of this ...

alpha(2000) = 02h 28m 09.54s , delta(2000) = +08d 27' 36.2'' ...

E-ELT PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION Project documents E-ELT Top Level Requirements Observatory Instruments ELT-CAM (now MICADO) ELT-IFU (now HARMONI) ELT-MIDIR (now METIS) ELT-HIRES (now ANDES) ...

alpha(2000) = 08h 43m 13.46s , delta(2000) = +03d 23' 55.1'' ...

PIONIER is a H-band 4-beam combiner instrument at the VLT interferometer. It is originally a visitor instrument that by agreement with IPAG is offered to the ESO community from P96 onwards as a ...

ESO's mission is to provide its astronomical community with worldwide competitive ground-based observing capabilities to probe the Universe from its first billion year to the present time. In order to ...

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MATISSE is a four-telescope beam combination instrument operating in the L (between 3.2 and 3.9 μm), M (between 4.5 and 5.0 μm), and N (between 8.0 and 13.0 μm) bands. It operates in a spectroimaging ...