Twenty Years at ESO

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Dec 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982msngr..30q...1w&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, No.30, P. 1, 1982

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On the 5th of October 1962, the ESO Convention was signed in Paris by representatives of Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. More than a year later, on the 17th of January 1964, the Convention went into effect, following parliamentary ratification in the required majority of countries. In 1967, Denmark also joined. In the early days (partly before the formalities were completed), site surveys were made which led to the choice of La Silla as the observatory location, and work was started on the La Silla infrastructure and on the Schmidt telescope and the 3.6 m telescope. Some other telescopes were ordered from industry. After it was realized that ESO did not have the necessary (technical) management capabilities to bring all its projects to a successful completion, discussions took place with CERN which led in 1970 to the founding of the T(elescope) P(roject) Division in Geneva, partly staffed with CERN personnel. As a result, the 3.6 m telescope was completed in 1976.

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