Important Links for Period 96
Information on Instruments & Facilities
| La Silla Paranal Observatory |
Homepage for the La Silla and Paranal Observatory facilities |
| Instrumentation and Facilities in Period 96 |
Links to technical information for Period 96 |
| Instruments available in Period 96 |
Instruments and facilities in Period 96 |
| Foreseen changes for Period 96 |
Period 96 technical news items |
| The APEX telescope | APEX Homepage |
| Observing with APEX |
Applying for time on APEX facilities |
| Exposure time calculators (ETCs) |
ETCs for Paranal and La Silla instrumentation |
Proposal Preparation
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| Observing conditions | Observing constraint definitions for Phase 1 and 2 - New in P96 |
| Overheads table for Paranal instrumentation |
Guidelines for calculating overheads |
| Telescope demand and pressure | Telescope demand & large programme commitment |
| Guaranteed Time Observations | GTO targets protected against duplication |
| Public Survey Targets page | Public survey fields protected against duplication |
| OPC Categories and sub-categories | OPC scientific category definitions |
| Proposal preparation tools and services | Ephemerides to determine when objects are best observed, links to weather pages and useful data catalogues and archives |
| The ESOFORM package | Information on the ESOFORM proposal package |
| Late Breaking News | Information as it becomes available after the release of the Call for Proposals |
Useful information
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| Paranal Site Details | Paranal Site, climate and seismical information |
| VLT UT Performance | VLT Unit telescope performance, guiding and tracking |
| Visibility on the VLT | Sky accessibility and vignetting by neighbouring telescopes on the VLT |
| Data Products |
Data Products and Phase 3 |
| Calibration Plans and Pipelines |
Calibration plans and Pipelines for VLT/I instrumentation |
| VLTI Configurations Overview | New Baselines in P96 |
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