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valign="top"> <th class="nav-head" align="center" nowrap>QUALITY CONTROL<br>     <a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/" title="Quality Control Home Page"><font color="#FFF" size="1">HOME</font></a> </th> </tr>   <tr align="left" valign="top"><td class="nav-item" nowrap>UT1</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_2" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_2);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_2);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_fors2.html" title="FORS2 QC Homepage">FORS2</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_3" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_3);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_3);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_kmos.html" title="KMOS QC Homepage">KMOS</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td class="nav-item" nowrap>UT2</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_5" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_5);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_5);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_giraffe.html" title="FLAMES/GIRAFFE QC Homepage">FLAMES/GIRAFFE</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_6" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_6);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_6);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_uves.html" title="UVES QC Homepage">UVES&FLAMES;/UVES</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td class="nav-item" nowrap>UT3</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_8" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_8);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_8);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_sphere.html" title="SPHERE QC Homepage">SPHERE</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_9" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_9);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_9);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_xshooter.html" title="XSHOOTER QC Homepage">X-SHOOTER</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td class="nav-item" nowrap>UT4</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_11" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_11);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_11);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_hawki.html" title="HAWKI QC Homepage">HAWK-I</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_12" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_12);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_12);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_muse.html" title="MUSE QC Homepage">MUSE</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_13" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_13);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_13);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_visir.html" title="VISIR QC Homepage">VISIR</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td class="nav-item" nowrap>VLTI</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_15" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_15);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_15);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_gravity.html" title="GRAVITY QC Homepage">GRAVITY</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_16" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_16);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_16);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_matisse.html" title="MATISSE QC Homepage">MATISSE</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_17" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_17);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_17);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_pionier.html" title="PIONIER QC Homepage">PIONIER</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td class="nav-item" nowrap>ICCF (Incoh. comb. Coude focus)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_19" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_19);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_19);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_espresso.html" title="ESPRESSO QC Homepage">ESPRESSO</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td class="nav-item" nowrap>Survey Cameras</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_21" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_21);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_21);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_omegacam.html" title="OMEGACAM QC Homepage">OMEGACAM</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_22" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-subitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_22);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_22);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_vircam.html" title="VIRCAM QC Homepage">VIRCAM</a></td></tr>  <tr><td colspan="2" class="nav-subitem"> </td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-otheritem" nowrap>General QC:</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_25" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_25);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_25);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/HEALTH/ImageQuality_HC.html" title="image quality">Image Quality</a> (<i>historical)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_26" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_26);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_26);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/HEALTH/SkyBackground.html" title="sky background">Sky Background</a> (<i>historical)</a></td></tr>  <tr><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem"> </td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-otheritem" nowrap>General process:</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_29" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_29);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_29);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PREIMG/preimage.html" title="Description of PRE-IMG process">pre-imaging</a></td></tr>  <tr><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem"> </td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-otheritem" nowrap><i>retired</i>:</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_32" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_32);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_32);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_fors1.html" title="FORS1 QC Homepage">FORS1 (April 2009)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_33" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_33);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_33);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_isaac.html" title="ISAAC QC Homepage">ISAAC (December 2013)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_34" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_34);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_34);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_crires.html" title="CRIRES QC Homepage">CRIRES (July 2014)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_35" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_35);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_35);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_midi.html" title="MIDI QC Homepage">MIDI (March 2015)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_36" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_36);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_36);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_vimos.html" title="VIMOS QC Homepage">VIMOS (March 2018)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_37" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_37);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_37);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_amber.html" title="AMBER QC Homepage">AMBER (September 2018)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_38" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_38);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_38);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_sinfoni.html" title="SINFONI QC Homepage">SINFONI (July 2019)</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM10_39" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM10_39);" onmouseout="out(ITEM10_39);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/index_naco.html" title="NACO QC Homepage">NACO (October 2019)</a></td></tr>   <tr align="left" valign="top"><th colspan="2" class="nav-div" nowrap>Related:</th></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM12_2" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM12_2);" onmouseout="out(ITEM12_2);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/instruments/" title="ESO Instrumentation">Instruments</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM12_3" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM12_3);" onmouseout="out(ITEM12_3);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/" title="Calibration plans and pipeline status">Pipelines</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM12_4" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM12_4);" onmouseout="out(ITEM12_4);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/sciops/" title="Science Operations">Paranal SciOps</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM12_5" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM12_5);" onmouseout="out(ITEM12_5);" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210417034236/http://archive.eso.org/" title="Science Archive">Archive</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM12_6" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM12_6);" onmouseout="out(ITEM12_6);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/observing/etc" title="Exposure Time Calculator">Exposure Time Calc.</a></td></tr>    <tr align="left" valign="top"><th colspan="2" class="nav-div" nowrap>QC links:</th></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM07_2" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM07_2);" onmouseout="out(ITEM07_2);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/" title="Home page of Quality Control">QC home</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM07_3" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM07_3);" onmouseout="out(ITEM07_3);" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/phase3/data_streams.html" title="Data products">Data Products</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM07_4" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM07_4);" onmouseout="out(ITEM07_4);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/ALL/daily_cal.html" title="Calibration check monitor">calChecker</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM07_5" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM07_5);" onmouseout="out(ITEM07_5);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/ALL/daily_qc1.html" title="Health Checks and Trending">HealthChecks</a></td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM07_6" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="3"><a class="nav-othersubitem" onmouseover="over(ITEM07_6);" onmouseout="out(ITEM07_6);" href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/ALL/ref_frames/ref_frames.html" title="Reference frames">Reference Frames</a></td></tr>  <tr><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem"> </td></tr>  <tr align="left" valign="top"><td colspan="2" class="nav-othersubitem" nowrap><img name="ITEM07_8" align="bottom" src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" 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vspace="0" hspace="3">  (ESO internal)</a></td></tr>  <tr><td colspan="99" class="nav-othersubitem"><font size="-2" color="#FFFFFF"><a class="hide"> [best viewing with style sheets and javascript enabled]</a></font></td></tr> </table>  </td> <td width="10" align="left" valign="top"><font size="-1"><img src="/web/20210417034236im_/http://www.eso.org/images/itemOff.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0"></font></td> <td valign="top"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" name="headline"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><u>C</u></font></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <td align="left" bgcolor="#006A9D"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="+3">Quality Control</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"> <tr> <td><br> <font size="2">At ESO Headquarters in Garching, the <b> Quality Control and Data Processing Group</b> ("QC Garching") processes all calibration data from the Paranal instruments (VLT, VLTI, survey cameras). Their quality is checked and monitored. If certified, master calibrations are archived and offered to the community for reducing science data.</font></p> <p> <font size="2">In addition, QC Garching </font><font size="2">processes <a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PREIMG/preimage.html">pre-imaging</a> science data</font>. </p> <p><font size="2">For selected instruments and instrument modes, we create science-grade data products and offer them through the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210417034236/http://archive.eso.org/wdb/wdb/adp/phase3_spectral/form">Data Products Query Form</a> of the Science Archive.</font></p> <p><span class="normal"><font size="2">Find <a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/">here</a> information about the VLT/ VLTI pipelines.</font></span></p> <p class="normal">Select by instrument for information about data types, QC parameters, trending, and pipeline recipes. </p> <hr noshade> <p><font size="2">Science-grade data products (all accessible <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210417034236/http://archive.eso.org/wdb/wdb/adp/phase3_spectral/form">here</a>): </font></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="70%" cellspacing="0"> <tr bgcolor="#999999" align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"> <tr align="left"> <td width="200" align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#804040"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PHOENIX/UVES_ECH/processing.html" target="_new"><font color="#000000"><b> <font color="#000000"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">UVES</font></b></font> </b></font> </a></td> <td width="349" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font size="2">UVES ECHELLE data, point sources: quality-controlled, homogeneous processing of complete data stream 2000-now</font></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#804040"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PHOENIX/XSHOOTER/processing.html" target="_new"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">XSHOOTER</font></b></font></b></font></a></td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font size="2">XSHOOTER SLIT data: quality-controlled, homogeneous processing of complete data stream 2009-now</font></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#804040"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PHOENIX/GIRAFFE/processing.html" target="_new"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">GIRAFFE</font></b></font></b></font></a></td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font size="2">GIRAFFE Medusa data: quality-controlled, homogeneous processing of complete data stream 2003-now</font></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#804040"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PHOENIX/MUSE/processing.html" target="_new"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">MUSE</font></b></font></b></font></a></td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font size="2">MUSE IFU data: quality-controlled, homogeneous processing of complete data stream 2014-now (OB-based)</font></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#804040"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#ccc" size="2"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PHOENIX/MUSE_DEEP/processing.html" target="_new"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">MUSE-DEEP</font></b></font></b></font></a></font></font></font></td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="normal"><p>Deep combination of MUSE IFU datacubes across OBs, complementary to the OB-based MUSE datacubes</p></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#804040"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PHOENIX/HAWKI/processing.html" target="_new"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">HAWKI</font></b></font></b></font></a></td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="normal">HAWKI images and catalogues (the data 2008-2015 have been processed by CASU, the data stream from 2015 until now is maintained by QC)</td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#804040"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/PHOENIX/KMOS/processing.html" target="_new"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">KMOS</font></b></font></b></font></a></td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="normal">KMOS IFU datacubes </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <hr noshade> <p><font size="2">General Services:</font></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="70%" cellspacing="0"> <tr bgcolor="#999999" align="center" valign="middle"> <td><table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"> <tr align="left"> <td width="200" align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#006A9D"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/HC"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">www.eso.org/HC<br> </font></b></font></a></td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font size="2">HealthCheck Monitor: Information about health check parameters<br>  </font></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#006A9D"><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/CAL"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">www.eso.org/CAL<br> <br> </font></b></font></a></td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font size="2">calChecker: calibration completeness monitor<br>  </font></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" bgcolor="#006A9D" valign="top" nowrap><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/QC"><font color="#000000"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">www.eso.org/QC</font></b></font></a></td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="normal">this site: documentation and tutorial pages about trending, QC1 parameters, data types and data processing</td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" bgcolor="#006A9D" valign="top" nowrap><a href="/web/20210417034236/http://www.eso.org/qc/ALL/ref_frames/ref_frames.html"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"><b>Reference Frames</b></font></a></td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font size="2">screenshots of raw reference frames, for use of Paranal Science Operations </font></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" bgcolor="#006A9D" valign="top" nowrap><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210417034236/http://archive.eso.org/bin/qc1_cgi"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">QC1 Database</font></b></a></td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font size="2">download and plot QC1 parameters</font></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"><hr size="2" noshade> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left" width="20"><font size="-1"><img 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