The MIDI Consortium

The MIDI consortium has built and commissioned the MIDI instrument in exchange of guanteed observation time (30x2 UT nights + a fraction of the total tome with the ATs). The MIDI consortium is an association of the following european institutes:

• Max Planck Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany
• Netherlands Graduate School for Astronomy (NOVA), Leiden, The Netherlands
• Department of Astronomy, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
• Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands
• Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (NFRA), Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
• Space Research Organization Netherlands (SRON), Utrecht/Groningen, The Netherlands
• Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (TLS), Germany
• Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS), Freiburg, Germany
• Observatoire de Paris (OBSPM), Paris/Meudon/Nançay, France
• Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Nice, France