ESO / ST-ECF Workshop on Calibrating and Understanding HST and ESO Instruments European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Muenchen 25 - 28 April, 1995 PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Tuesday, April 25 MIDAS Users Meeting 14:00 MIDAS Status Report P. Grosboel 15:00 Questions and Answers 15:30 Coffee 16:00 - 17:00 Demos Wednesday, April 26 08:30 - 09:15 Registration 09:15 Welcome R. Giacconi 09:20 Introduction P. Benvenuti Session 1 - The calibration of HST Instruments. A case study 09:30 Overview of HST calibration E. Schreier 10:00 FOC calibration R. Jedrzejewski 10:30 Lessons learned from the design and use of the WF/PC-1 and WFPC2 calibration processes J. MacKenty 11:00 Coffee Break 11:30 FOS - GHRS J. Walsh 12:00 Astrometry and OTA performance R. Gilmozzi 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Predictive calibration strategies based on instrument S/W models - FOS as a case study M. Rosa 14:30 STIS / NICMOS Ch. Blades 15:10 ACE J. Crocker 15:25 Photometry with HST Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) R. Kuschnig (Oral introduction to poster paper) 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 HST calibration and user support in historical perspective: lessons learned E. Schreier 16:45 Round Table Discussion: "What can VLT learn from HST?" - 17:30 Welcome Reception Thursday, April 27 Session 2 - Current ESO Instruments 09:00 The role of the new ESO Instrument Division G. Monnet 09:20 Testing and measurement of CCD detectors in Garching J. Beletic 09:40 EFOSC1 J. Melnick 10:00 Spectropolarimetry with EFOSC1 S. di Serego Alighieri/ J. Walsh 10:20 Calibration aspects of the ECHELEC and CASPEC echelle spectrographs W. Verschueren 10:40 Gain calibration of array detectors from shifted and rotated frames M. Andersen 11:00 Coffee Break 11:20 Calibration and automation of the NTT active optics system L. Noethe / Ph. Gitton 11:40 Acquisition, cleaning and calibrating of groundbased thermal IR data H.-U. Kaeufl 12:00 IRSPEC - IRAC1-2 R. Gredel 12:20 Observation preparation and data extraction for multiobject spectrographs D. Minniti 12:40 Lunch Session 3 - VLT Instruments 14:00 Calibration issues with the first generation VLT instruments J.G. Cuby 14:20 Near IR calibration issues - ISAAC J. Spyromilio 14:40 UVES H. Hensberge/ P. Ballester 15:00 Coffee Break 15:20 FORS S. Moehler 15:40 Observing extended objects with chopping restrictions on 8m class telescopes in the thermal IR H.-U. Kaeufl 16:00 CONICA TBD 16:20 Performance monitoring of VLT telescopes D. Enard 16:40 VLTI calibration issues O. v.d. Luehe/ A. Quirrenbach Friday, April 28 Session 4 - Other Astronomical Projects 09:00 Science and engineering data management at the WIYN 3.5m telescope J. Percival 09:30 The ISO calibration plan A. Moneti 10:00 The DENIS Project T. le Bertre 10:20 2dF data reduction: philosophy and implementation K. Taylor 10:40 Ground and in-orbit calibration of the ROSAT-PSPC U. Briel 11:00 Coffee Break 11:20 Gemini S. Ramsay Howat 11:40 Telescopio Nazionale Galileo S. di Serego Alighieri 12:10 Lunch Session 5 - Software Environments 13:30 On-line MIDAS K. Banse 13:50 MIDAS data organizer as a calibration tool M. Peron 14:10 ESO Data Reduction CookBook R. Warmels 14:30 VLT on-line data flow P. Grosboel 14:50 Coffee Break 15:20 HST pipeline processing R. Hanisch 15:40 The calibration archive and quick-reduction at the TNG telescope F. Pasian / M. Pucillo 16:00 AIPS++ TBD 16:20 Contributed papers 17:00 End of Workshop POSTER PAPERS 1 Adorf, H.-M. High resolution images from multiple "dithered" frames 2 Kuschnig, R. Photometry with HST Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) 3 Labhardt, L. Calibration of WFPC2 photometry 4 Nanetti, L. Application of the PLUCY algorithm to a 1.6 micron image of NGC 7469 5 Brandner, W., et al. Diffraction limited imaging with the ESO adaptive optics system ADONIS/COME-ON+