Dr Paola Andreani
European Southern Observatory
European Southern Observatory
An overview of ESO (European Southern Observatory) is given, starting from its early days in the 60s, its observatories in Chile in the Atacama Desert, spanning a large range of wavelengths from the optical/near IR (La Silla, the Very Large Telescope – VLT/VLTI) to the millimetre range (the Atacama Pathfinder – APEX, the Atacama Large submm/mm Array – ALMA) and hosting the high energy Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
How to submit a scientific proposal and some scientific highlights obtained with ESO telescopes will be also presented.