... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Space Telescope Science Institute . ACS Instrument Handbook Cycle 19 . ... Advanced Camera for Surveys Instrument Handbook for Cycle 19 > Chapter 4: Detector Performance > 4.4 The SBC MAMA . 4.4 The SBC MAMA . ... The ACS MAMA detector is the STIS flight spare STF7. ... The ACS MAMA only operates in the accumulate ( ACCUM ) mode, in which a time-integrated image is produced. ... Figure 4.11: Design of the SBC MAMA. Table 4.7: SBC detector performance characteristics. ... Pixel format . ...

... The SIRTF Science Center is developing two Web-based tools that will be used during operations. One tool is for Quality Analysis. ... The basic design requirements for the QA tool are (1) that it provide an easy way of looking at all the data, observation by observation, and (2) that it provide an easy way to specify status and comments for each observation. ... The data accessed by this tool consists of meta-data in the central database as well as the actual data files in the archive. ...