Australia to build Fibre Positioner for the Very Large Telescope
eso_eso9824a June 19th, 1998
Credit: ESO
This image illustrates the use of the new Fibre Positioner (OzPoz). It shows an example of the 25 arcmin field-of-view of the VLT with the FLAMES facility, as recorded during the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) with the 3.5-m New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla. Within only one night, FLAMES with the OzPoz positioner will be capable of obtaining optical and infrared spectra for no less than 1/3 of the approx. 9,000 objects (many of which are distant galaxies) seen in this image! They can then be used to determine their redshift, chemical composition and dynamics. This will increase enormously the observational efficiency of the VLT. In just one night, it is possible to observe and analyse thousands of objects, a task that would have taken years in the past.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9824a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- eso9824a
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- D.6.1.1
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- EIS survey
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- ESO
- Release Date
- 1998-06-19T00:00:00
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- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9824a/
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- Observation
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- New Technology Telescope
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- European Southern Observatory
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- http://www.eso.org/
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- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
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- Garching bei München
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- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso9824a
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- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso9824a.tif
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