... all about FORS:

• FORS, the focal reducer low dispersion spectrograph for the ESO VLT

  

  See the FORS 2 first light press release (11/17/1999).

  A postscript document with the photometric calibrations is available now.

  The pages most important to observers are:

  • The real FORS page (by the colleagues of Munich), no longer active
  • the official FORS page of ESO (by Gero Rupprecht)
  • the new User Manual (written by Otmar Stahl, Walter Seifert, Wolfgang Hummel with many more contributions of members of the FORS team)
  • and the xposure time calculator (provided by the ESO DMD)

  The information about the FORS data reduction software is available on

  • the FORS data reduction page

• Thomas Szeifert's FORS page - finding charts of photometric standard stars, some test results and some remarks about polarimetric meassurements

... and more about FORS:

• Thomas Szeifert's homepage