The science verification (SV) for HAWK-I is being carried following the VLT Science Verification Policy and Procedures .

zCOSMOS (P.I. Simon Lilly) is a large redshift survey that is being undertaken in the COSMOS field using the VIMOS spectrograph mounted at the Melipal Unit Telescope of the VLT at ESO's Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile. zCOSMOS (ESO Large Programme LP175.A-0839) has been awarded about 600 hours of Service Mode observing time on the ESO VLT, making it the largest single observing project undertaken so far on that facility.

This form provides access to observations performed with APEX since July, 11 2005 that are stored on-line in the Science Archive Facility in Garching. To request data you have to register as an ESO/ST-ECF Archive user. A request can be submitted following the instructions in the results table.

This form provides access to observations performed with CRIRES that are stored on-line in the Science Archive Facility in Garching. To request data you have to register as an ESO/ST-ECF Archive user.

Search for Spectral Advanced Data Products: This query form gives access to the contents of various public spectral data packages. To request data you have to register as an ESO/ST-ECF Archive user. A request can be submitted following the instructions in the results table.

Search for Spectral Advanced Data Products: This query form gives access to the contents of various public spectral data packages. To request data you have to register as an ESO/ST-ECF Archive user. A request can be submitted following the instructions in the results table.

Previews for the WFI instrument at the 2.2m telescope in La Silla are now available through the main ESO Archive query form for the year 2005. More WFI previews from previous years will be posted in the following weeks.

As part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), near-infrared imaging observations of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) were carried out in J, H, Ks bands, using the ISAAC instrument mounted at the Antu Unit Telescope of the VLT at ESO's Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile.

Latest news (2007 September 14): New version of the BoA data reduction software using gfortran instead of Intel Fortran. This version will now also work under Fedora Core 6.

The Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) is a prototype MCAO system which aims to demonstrate in the laboratory and on sky the feasibility of different MCAO image reconstruction and correction techniques in view of future applications with the 2nd Generation VLT Instruments and E-ELT instrumentation.