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The OmegaCAM project
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The OmegaCAM project involves:
- the design and construction of the Camera including
software to operate it
- the design of calibration and observing strategies
- the design and implementation of a data reduction pipeline in an
archival environment, capable of handling a data volume of 20
Tbyte/year.
The consortium institutes will receive garanteed observing time and
will conduct their own scientific programmes. The instrument will
become
publicly available as a general ESO facility. Within ESO the VST plus
its
instrumentation is regarded as another VLT instrument. The OmegaCAM
will
be the only instrument on the VST, at least in the first years.
An important application of the VST and the OmegaCAM will be the
selection of
targets for further follow-up VLT observations.
The VST camera announcement
of opportunity
OBSERVING AND DATA MINING WITH
OmegaCAM
Exposure time calculation 
External links:
WFI on the
MPG/ESO 2.2-m
Overview of Filter sets used by other wide
angle surveys
NOVA
Please address any comments or requests regarding this Web page to
Edwin A. Valentijn
valentyn@astro.rug.nl
Updated: 2 Sept 2004