Visitor Focus
In Period 104, the Nasmyth A focus of UT1 will be available for visitor instruments starting as of mid-November 2019; the Cassegrain focus of UT3 is also available during the first months of Period 104, until VISIR comes back to UT3.
Visitor Instruments can provide a powerful scientific or technical test bench for new instrumental concepts, which may eventually be incorporated later in VLT or other instruments. Visitor Instruments are free from a substantial fraction of the requirements imposed on the fully automated VLT facility instruments.
Teams that want to propose the use of their Visitor Instruments should follow these instructions.
The technical requirements imposed by ESO on Visitor Instruments are available here. See also our Gallery.
Past Visitor Instruments:
Instrument
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Date | remarks
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|---|---|---|
| ULTRACAM | May 2005 November 2005 June 2007 |
Ultra-fast Movies of the Sky |
| DAZLE | November 2006 January 2008 |
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| APE | December 2008, February 2009 | Active Phasing Experiment (APE) for the ELT |