VST: VLT Survey Telescope.
Abstract
The VLT era is rapidly approaching: the first instruments, ISAAC and FORS at UT1, will be available by the year 1999. Indeed, the beginning of the new millennium will witness fierce competition among quite a few 8-m telescopes, operated by different groups. As a consequence, there is a strong need to prepare, in a timely manner, suitable targetlists for the VLT, in order for it to play the leading role in ground-based optical and IR astronomy in the next decade. Preparation is one of the keys to success for the VLT observations.
- Publication:
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The Messenger
- Pub Date:
- September 1998
- Bibcode:
- 1998Msngr..93...30A
- Keywords:
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- VLT: Sky Surveys;
- VLT: Optical Design