Historical Documents

As a service to the greater community, the ESO Library is scanning and making ESO historical documents accessible. For the moment, the following documents have been made available to all users. It is envisioned that more documents will be made available over time. Further electronic publications are accessible from the ESO Libraries Catalog. However, some of these documents are still for internal use only (and are listed as intranet links). If you wish to obtain copies of ESO historical documents that are not accessible from this page or the catalog, please contact the ESO Library for assistance.

Basic Texts Convention and Protocols European Southern Observatory January 1987 See Contents Table

VLT Blue Book Proposal for the Construction of the 16-m Very Large Telescope European Southern Observatory 1987 PDF (19.9 MB)

VLT White Book European Southern Observatory 1998 PDF (15.4 MB)

ESO's Early History by Adriaan Blaauw European Southern Observatory 1991 PDF (41.8 MB) High Resolution PDF (151.3 MB)

Exploring the Southern Sky by Svend Laustsen, Claus Madsen and Richard M. West Springer Verlag 1987 scanned with permission from the publisher PDF (46.4 MB)