Late Breaking News

24 November, 2020

For information on the ramping up of operations see: https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/lpo/news.html

 

30 October, 2020

  • At the moment, FORS2, MUSE (only WFM-noAO), UVES and X-SHOOTER are operational. Therefore, until further notice, DDT proposals can only be submitted to these instruments. For more information on the status of current operations see: https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/lpo/news.html

21 October, 2020

  • At the moment, FORS2, UVES and X-SHOOTER are operational. Therefore, until further notice, DDT proposals can only be submitted to these instruments.

21 September, 2020

  • After being closed for several months due to the COVID-19 emergency situation, our Observatories are ramping up to a restricted operations mode.  At the moment, only FORS2 and UVES are operational. Therefore, until further notice, DDT proposals can only be submitted to these instruments.
    For more information see  https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/announcements/sciann17333.html

 

20 August, 2020

20 March, 2020

  • Impact of COVID-19 on ESO Proposal Submission Deadline
    Given ongoing developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the proposal submission deadline has been postponed from 26 March to 23 April 12:00 CEST. ESO will continue to follow developments closely and may provide additional updates regarding Phase 1 in the next weeks. Please see also: https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/announcements/sciann17282.html

 

16 March, 2020

  • Due to recent developments in the preparations to offer SOXS at the NTT in the near future, Large Programme proposals will be accepted for SOFI in Period 106 and for EFOSC2 in Periods 106 and 107. Users should be aware, however, that these programmes may be terminated ahead of the expected time, depending on progress in the activities with SOXS. This will be reviewed again for Period 108.


 

27 February, 2020:

  • Users submitting Calibration Programme proposals do not need anymore to assign the category L0 to their proposals; this is now done automatically by the p1 proposal submission tool.

  • The decommissioning of SOFI expected to occur in Period 106 is likely going to be postponed.