Research activities

Impact of the FORS press releases:

• astronomic pictures of the day
  • 1998-09-29, a peculiar cluster of galaxies
  • 1998-09-30, spiral galaxy NGC 1232
  • 1998-10-09, M27 not a comet
  • 1998-10-13, in the center of the Dumbbell Nebula

The pages most important to observers are:

The real FORS page (by the colleagues from Munich), no longer active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

Technical informations are available on:

• my FORS page - finding charts of photometric standard stars, a few test results and some remarks about polarimetric meassurements