The Messenger 115
March 2004

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Telescopes and Instrumentation

Five Years VLT	Catherine Cesarsky, ESO Director General Riccardo Giacconi, ESO Director General, 1993-1999 Roberto Gilmozzi, Paranal Director Alvio Renzini, Excerpts From the First Five Years of VLT Science	2
A. Moorwood & S. D'Odorico	New VLT Instruments Underway	8
R. Arsenault et al.	Towards an Adaptive Secondary for the VLT ?	11
B. Koehler	The First Light of the First VLTI Auxiliary Telescope	15
F. Patat	Night Sky Brightness During Sunspot Maximum at Paranal	18

Reports from Observers

M.R.L. Cioni et al.	DENIS Results on the Magellanic Clouds	22
M. Lehnert & M. Bremer	High Redshift Galaxies and the Sources of Reionization	27
E. Tolstoy et al.	Stellar Spectroscopy of Individual Stars in Local Group Galaxies with the VLT	32
Th. Encrenaz et al.	First detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Atmosphere of Uranus	35
A. Koch et al.	Correcting Spatial Gradients	37

Other Astronomical News

H. van Winckel	The Users' Committee	40
S. Wagner & B. Leibundgut	Large Programmes and Surveys	41
I. Corbett	Future Large-Scale Projects and Programmes in Astronomy and Astrophysics	43
	Finland to Join ESO	44
D. Alloin & D. Minniti	Report on the "Extrasolar Planets and brown dwarfs" School	45
D. Alloin	Report on the "Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei at All Scales" Workshop	46
C. Hummel & D. Alloin	Report on the "Optical Interferometry Brings New Frontiers in Astrophysics" Micro-Workshop	46
Fellows at ESO	N. Cretton, E. Daddi, P. Gandhi & D. Nürnberger	47
R. West & H.M.J. Boffin	The Venus Transit 2004 Programme	49

Announcements (in PDF format)

B. Pirenne	Upcoming Change in the Supported Archive Ouput Media	52
Personnel movements		53
ESO Studentship Programme		53
ESO Vacancies	ESO Representative in Chile - Head of the Office for Science Santiago Operations Staff Astronomer - Deputy Head of the Paranal Science Operations Dept. Staff Astronomer Operations Staff Astronomer (VLTI)	54
Messenger Annual Index 2003		56