VST: a dedicated wide-field imaging facility at Paranal

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Dec 2002

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Survey and Other Telescope Technologies and Discoveries. Edited by Tyson, J. Anthony; Wolff, Sidney. Proceedings of the SPIE,

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This paper is a status report on the VST (VLT Survey Telescope) project, aimed at creating a new-technology wide-field facility at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at Paranal, Chile. The VST telescope is a 2.6 m alt-az reflector built by INAF - Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory (OAC). The camera is a 16k × 16k CCD mosaic provided by the international OmegaCAM consortium. In spite of a recent disastrous event, which caused the loss of the primary mirror while it was transferred from Europe to Chile by ESO, the goal is still that the facility may start to operate in the first quarter of 2004, as planned.

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