SINFONI News

• June 2008: Please refer to the Observatory News page for the latest update on LGS (un)-availability.
• September 10, 2007: The user manual has been updated to include: (i) new R-band magnitude limit of R=18 for the TTS brightness in LGS mode, and (ii) an update on the orientation of STRAP field selector.
• April 17, 2007: The official Policies for the use of the Laser Guide Star have been released by Paranal Observatory Science Operations.
• March 13, 2006: The user manual for period 78 has been updated to reflect the availability of the Laser Guide Star and Rapid Response Modes.
• January 14, 2006: The user manual for period 77 is unchanged in respect to period 76. The page with frequently asked questions was updated with more hints to query the 2MASS and other catalogs from skycat. A direct link to the SINFONI data reduction pipeline as released on October 27, 2005 was add to the tools.
• July 21, 2005: More informations for visiting astonomers about SINFONI data
• June 21, 2005: Updated user manual for period 76 service and visitor mode observation runs and the P77 call for proposals. This version includes updated performance estimates of SPIFFI and SINFONI-AO.
• April 17, 2005: The page with frequently asked questions was updated with informations on how stacks of image cubes of very faint targets can be coadded accuractely.
• April 1, 2005: The data taken with SINFONI are now visible from the archive WEB intereface
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