The User Support Department (USD) of the ESO Data Management and Operations Division is based in Garching bei München, Germany. Its main activities consist in providing support to users of ESO La ...

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.

Based on the FAIR principles to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, publications making use of ESO observational data must include the following statement in a footnote or in ...

Paranal Science Operations (PSO) is the department of the European Southern Observatory responsible for the scientific operation of the telescopes at the Paranal Observatory site. These facilities ...

Proposals for observing time on all facilities of the La Silla Paranal Observatory (VLT/I, NTT, 3.6m) must be submitted using the p1 web system: The new p1 user interface collects the same information ...

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) ...

Several teams provide support in regard to ESO's telescopes and instruments, e.g. support for observing proposal preparation and submission, observation scheduling, data flow operation, information ...

We list on this page the topics offered by ESO Faculty astronomers to the students interested in the ESO Studentship programme. The deadline to apply for the ESO Studentship is April 20th and October ...

The procedures for obtaining flat fields are described in greater detail elsewhere (follow the links under the different spectroscopic modes). The different types of flat fields used for spectroscopy ...

Revealing hidden stars and galaxies: new MOONS instrument at the Very Large Telescope makes first observations ...

Experience spring at ESO's Paranal Observatory: slots now open for free public tours from October through December ...

Artist’s impression of the planet Ross 128 b (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO’s unique ...