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- Title
- From wide-field imager to VLT survey telescope
- Author(s)
- Schmidtobreick, L.; Germany, L.; Mendez, R.; Rassia, E.; Selman, F.
- Abstract
- The Wide-Field Imager (WFI) is the outcome of a joint project between the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg (Germany) and the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte near Naples (Italy). It was installed at the 2.2 m MPG/ESO telescope in 1998 December. A mosaic of eight CCDs provides a large field of 34×33 arcmin which allows us to obtain detailed views of extended celestial objects down to very faint magnitudes. WFI is the first of a new generation of survey facilities at ESO and will be replaced by OmegaCAM on the 2.6 m VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at Paranal in the near future.
- Publication Type
- Journal article
- Source
- Baltic Astronomy, Vol. 13, no. 4 (2004), pp. 704-706
- Publication Year
- 2004
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; 020102 Astronomical and Space Instrumentation
- Keyword(s)
- Astronomy; Instruments; Telescopes; VLT Survey Telescope; VST; WFI; Wide-Field Imager
- Publisher
- Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy
- Publisher URL
- http://www.itpa.lt/ba/cont2004.8.html
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2004 Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy.
- ISSN
- 1392-0049
- Peer Reviewed
