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Location: | La Silla, Chile |
| Property: | Max-Planck Society (MPG) | |
| Operated by: | European Southern Observatory - ESO | |
| Operative since: | 1984 |
| Phone: | (+49) 6221 528264 | Fax: | (+49) 6221 528246 |
| Email: | gredel@mpia.de | Web Page: | http://www.mpia.de/Public/menu_q2.php?MPIA/ESO22/index.html |
| Full address: | European Southern Observatory - ESO
La Silla Chile |
| Description: | The 2.2m telescope at La Silla has been in operation since early 1984 and is on indefinite loan to ESO from the Max Planck Gesellschaft. Operation and maintenance of the telescope is the responsibility of ESO. The telescope (which is a fork mounted Ritchey-Chrétien) was built by Zeiss Germany. The telescope is at a geographical location of 70°44'4"543W 29°15'15"433S and an altitude of 2335 metres.
Two instruments, the WFI, (ESO/MPG's Wide Field Imager) and FEROS (ESO's Fiber fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph) are operational at the 2.2-m. -. The Wide Field Imager WFI) is a focal reducer-type camera which is permanently mounted at the Cassegrain focus of the 2.2-m MPG/ESO telescope at La Silla. It has a large field of view with a diameter of almost 0.8 degree (detector coverage: 34'x33'). A mosaic of 4x2 CCD detectors with narrow inter-chip gaps yielding a filling factor of 95.9% and offers excellent sensitivity from the atmospheric UV cut-off to the near IR. The pixel size of 0.24'' will only under the most superb seeing conditions under-sample the point spread function. The filter storage and change mechanism can accommodate up to 50 filters simultaneously. The default filter set includes a large number of medium- and narrow-band filters that are specifically selected to support the determination of photometric redshifts of distant objects. Linear polarisation measurements are possible in a broad blue band. -. The FEROS Spectrograph is a state-of-the-art bench-mounted, high-resolution, Environmentally controlled, astronomical Echelle spectrograph. It is operated at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile, one of the best astronomical sites in the world. The high efficiency (~20%), large wavelength range (the complete optical spectral region in one exposure) and high resolution (R=48000) makes possible a large variety of stellar and extra-galactic spectroscopic observation programs requiring high spectral stability can be carried out. |
| Further details: | http://www.mpia.de/Public/menu_q2.php?MPIA/ESO22/index.html |
| More information: | http://www.ls.eso.org/lasilla/site/Opticon.htm |
| Funding sources: | ESO member states’ contributions |
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| Name: | Gredel, Roland | Role/Function: | Coordinator |
| Email: | gredel@mpia.de | Phone: | 49-6221-528264 |
| Fax: | 49-6221-528246 | Institution: | MPG/ESO 2.2m TELESCOPE |
| Full Address: | MPIA, Koenigstuhl 17
D-69117 Heidelberg Germany |
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