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European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (L–R): ESO logo; Map of member states Abbreviation ESO Formation 1962 ; 63 years ago (1962) Type Intergovernmental organisation Purpose astronomy Research organisation Headquarters Garching, Germany Membership 16 Official language English, French, German Director General Xavier Barcons Website www.eso.org Trailer of ...
The VST dome among VLT's telescopes. It is located in the background between two of the VLT auxiliary telescopes (small round enclosures). The VST is an alt-azimuthal wide-field survey telescope with a primary mirror diameter of 2.65 meters that was constructed from 2007 to 2011 at the ESO Cerro Paranal Observatory, in Chile.
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset (also EPSG registry) is a public registry of geodetic datums, spatial reference systems, Earth ellipsoids, coordinate transformations and related units of measurement, originated by a member of the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) in 1985.
From an aerial view of the Paranal Observatory, the four large units of the VLT with their four small, dome-shaped auxiliary telescopes can be clearly seen. The Survey Telescope, VST, is immediately adjacent to the VLT and seen in between two of its units, while VISTA is located on a secondary peak, some 1,500 m away in the background (see image).
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The Hamburg/ESO Survey is an astrometric star catalogue published by the University of Hamburg. The catalog contains stars between magnitudes 13 and 18 covering the Southern extragalactic sky. The stated goals of the catalog [ 1 ] are
The OS MasterMap is the premier digital product of the Ordnance Survey. It was launched in November 2001. It is a database that records every fixed feature of Great Britain larger than a few meters in one continuous digital map. Every feature is given a unique TOID (TOpographical IDentifier), a simple identifier that includes no semantic ...