Important Links for Period 114
Information on Instruments & Facilities
| La Silla Paranal Observatory |
Homepage for the La Silla and Paranal Observatory facilities |
| Instrumentation and Facilities in Period 114 |
Links to technical information for Period 114 |
| Instruments available in Period 114 |
Instruments and facilities in Period 114 |
| Recent changes for Period 114 |
Important changes for Period 114 |
| Foreseen changes for next Periods | Planned changes for future Periods |
| Exposure time calculators (ETCs) |
ETCs for Paranal and La Silla instrumentation |
Proposal Preparation
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| Web p1 | The Web-based p1 proposal submission interface |
| Observing conditions | Observing constraint definitions for Phase 1 and 2 |
| 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 |
| Proposal preparation tools and services | Ephemerides to determine when objects are best observed, links to weather pages and useful data catalogues and archives |
| Late Breaking News | Information as it becomes available after the release of the Call for Proposals |
| Users Workshop Part II | Hands-on sessions on p1, session on how to write proposals, and more |
| Phase 1 Users Workshop event | Update on recent changes in the proposal preparation |
| Joint VLT/I-ALMA proposals |
Information about Joint VLT/I-ALMA 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 |
| Pipelines for VLT/I instruments | Pipelines for VLT/I instrumentation |
| VLTI Configurations Overview | Baselines available in P114 |
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