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April 12, 2002
Third Call for ASTROVIRTEL Proposals
Deadline: 17 June 2002

November 13, 2001
New type of WFPC2 Associations:
using cross-correlation techniques, a more complete and more reliable set of offsets is now available.
Deeper, cosmic ray free, mosaic images are generated on-the-fly upon archive users' requests.
[Alberto.Micol@eso.org]

September 11, 2001
Final release of STPOA package from the POA FOS project
[ipmg@eso.org]

April 25, 2001
ASTROVIRTEL Second Call for Proposals - Submission Deadline: June 15, 2001
[astrovirtel@eso.org]
October 25, 2000
Link to the ISO calibration page added in the Related External Services menu on our home page. This page provides lots a valuable calibration information for infrared observers.
[A. Wicenec]
July 10, 2000
New archive registration system released.
A new menu labelled Archive User Profile on our home page provides various options for registering new archive users as well as viewing and modifying existing user profiles.
[M. Dolensky]
March 31, 2000
New query forms to access the VLT Science Archive: These new query functions feature FITS headers viewers, DIMM seeing viewers, and for now, also automatic selection of suitable calibrations for FORS1 data -- ISAAC to follow soon.
[The Science Archive Facility team]

Having trouble using the Science Archive Facility?
Pay a visit to our FAQ section (frequently asked questions).
[M. Albrecht]
March 28, 2000
Call for proposal for archive research programmes The ASTROVIRTEL PROGRAM.
[B. Pirenne]
March 27, 2000
New Job in the archive area: Data Archive and Pipeline Operation Specialist.
[B. Pirenne]
March 27, 2000
IUE Final Archive data now available from ESO.
[A. Wicenec]
March 16, 2000
Stand-alone FITS tools in ANSI-C now available. Among the tools, hierarch28 will convert HIERARCH ESO header keywords to standard 8-char ones.
[N. Devillard]
February 25, 2000
Archive query results are now linked to the (DIMM) seeing database.
[M. Albrecht]
Zooming on ambient data is now available with an interactive applet.
[M. Albrecht]
February 23, 2000
Public Datasets now include UVES commissioning data.
[A. Wicenec]
January 17, 2000
Astrometric catalogs server (Hipparcos, Tycho, TRC).
[A. Wicenec]
New Archive Facility Web Site: Should you have any comments on the new Web site layout, please send us a mail.
December 7, 1999
DSS-1/DSS-2 red and dss2 blue
The famous digital sky surveys (DSS1 and DSS2) are now available.
DSS-1 has been installed on an array of 6 large capacity, high performance disks
DSS-2 has been copied on 59 DVD-Rs and installed in a fast jukebox. Ask for a demo next time you visit ESO!
Stand-alone client available. Just download
[B. Pirenne & A. Wicenec]
October 14, 1999
The JSky initiative: Building a repository of reusable Java Components for Astronomy
ESO proposes a community wide framework for developing Java components that can be reused accross projects.
[M. Albrecht & A. Brighton]
April 30, 1999
DSS-1/DSS-2
The famous digital sky surveys (DSS1 and DSS2) are now fully available.
DSS-1 has been installed on an array of 6 large capacity, high performance disks
DSS-2 has been copied on 59 DVD-Rs and installed in a fast jukebox. Ask for a demo next time you visit ESO!
[B. Pirenne & A. Wicenec]
April 28, 1999
On The Fly Re-Calibration of NICMOS observations
is now available to registered archive users.
[M. Dolensky & A. Micol]
April 27, 1999
Abstract Service of the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) mirrored at ESO.[M. Albrecht]
March 25, 1999
Batch catalogue server. [A. Wicenec]
March 25, 1999
ASTROM catalog server released (HIPPARCOS, TYCHO, TRC). [A. Wicenec]
July 23, 1998
Archive Operations Systems Administrator position available in the archive operations group
[B. Pirenne]
July 02, 1998
ESO-NTT Post-Big bang catalogue browse and data request facility.
[B. Pirenne]
June 23, 1998
On-The-Fly re-calibration of HST STIS data sets.
[A. Micol]
April, 1998
WFPC2 Associations and Post-Processing!
[A. Micol]
June 4, 1997
Retrieval of a list of HST Data Sets
[A. Micol]
Check the Status of an Archive Request
[A. Micol]
May 6, 1997
HST Science proposal abstracts now available for cycle 7.
[B. Pirenne]
The ESO Lauberts-Valentijn Archive of Uppsala Galaxies is now on-line.
[M. Albrecht]
Announcing the ESO SkyCat Tool. A tool to visualize and display astronomical images and catalogs.
[M. Albrecht]
Announcing the ESO On-line USNO A1.0 catalog. A catalog of 488 Million sources on the sky.
[M. Albrecht]
Apr 18, 1997
HST Science now covers new HST instruments (NICMOS & STIS)
[A. Micol, B. Pirenne]
Dec 5, 1996
Retrieval of HST best reference files - [Alberto Micol]
Nov 27, 1996
ESO Data Interface Control Document - official release of version 1.0. [Miguel Albrecht]
Oct 18, 1996
CD-ROM. Beyond FTP, Exabyte and DAT, we now offer HST and ESO/NTT data on CD-ROM. This facility is limited to requests totalling between 300MB and 1200MB of data. [bpirenne]
Jul 17, 1996
On-The-Fly re-calibration of HST science data sets now available. [bpirenne,amicol]
Jun 16, 1996
La Silla extinction coefficients updated [mnaumann]
May 20, 1996
ESO Experts Workshop: ESO Next Generation Archive Facilities May 21-22, 1996 [ctelander]
Mar 12, 1996
Access to the ESO query form, allowing you to scan journals and conference proceedings for publications of ESO users [resy]
Feb 07, 1996
Exciting new search engine for ESO/ST-ECF Archive Web pages installed. [mnaumann]
Feb 01, 1996
Free access for the public to the complete Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) since February 1st, 1996 [malbrech]
Jan 08, 1996
La Silla extinction coefficients updated [mnaumann]
Oct 4, 1995
Guide Star Catalogue Web Server at ESO [mnaumann]
Aug 10, 1995
The ESO Sky Calendar tool [malbrech]
Aug 04, 1995
Very Large Array FIRST Survey accessible via STARCAT
May 30, 1995
Online access to the Digitized Sky Survey at ESO [malbrech]
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