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href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vista/consortium/"> The VISTA consortium </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vst/"> VST <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-290" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vst/mirror/"> The VST mirrors </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vst/camera/"> OmegaCAM </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vst/surveys/"> The VST surveys </a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li 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href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/irspec/"> IRSPEC </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/harps/"> HARPS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/mefos/"> MEFOS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/nirps/"> NIRPS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/optopus/"> OPTOPUS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/timmi2/"> TIMMI/2 </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/36-infrared-photometer-spectrophotometer/"> Infrared Photometer/Spectrophotometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/36-standard-photometer/"> Standard Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/infrared-specklegraph/"> Infrared Specklegraph </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/infrared-speckle-interferometer/"> Infrared Speckle Interferometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/efosc/"> EFOSC </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu current"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/"> MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-321" class="submenu-aim sublevel selected current current-leaf"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/feros/"> FEROS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/grond/"> GROND </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/irac2/"> IRAC & IRAC2 </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/pisco/"> PISCO </a></li><li class=" current current-leaf"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/wfi/"> WFI </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/infrared-photometer-spectrophotometer/"> Infrared Photometer/Spectrophotometer </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swiss/"> Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-328" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swiss/coralie/"> CORALIE </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/rem/"> Rapid Eye Mount telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/trappist/"> TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope–South </a></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/"> Danish 1.54-metre telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-332" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/coravel/"> CORAVEL </a></li><li class=""><a 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Objets Transitoires </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/1mschmidt/"> ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope </a></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/"> ESO 1.52-metre telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-342" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/bandc/"> Boller and Chivens Spectrograph </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/coude/"> Coudé Spectrograph </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/echelec/"> ECHELEC </a></li><li class=""><a 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href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/05metre/"> ESO 0.5-metre telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-351" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/05metre/single-channel-photometer/"> Single-Channel Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/05metre/double-channel-photometer/"> Double-Channel Photometer </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/coude/"> Coudé Auxiliary Telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-354" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/coude/ces/"> CES </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/marly/"> MarLy 1-metre telescope </a></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/09metre/"> Dutch 0.9-metre telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-357" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/09metre/walraven/"> Walraven Photometer </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/t70/"> Swiss T70 telescope </a></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/bochum/"> Bochum 0.61-metre telescope <span 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class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish05/danish-four-channel-uvby-photometer/"> Four-Channel uvby Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish05/danish-six-channel-uvby-hb-photometer/"> Six-Channel uvby–Hβ Photometer </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/gpo/"> Grand Prisme Objectif telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swiss04/"> Swiss 0.4-metre telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/marseille/"> Marseille 0.36-metre telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/grb/"> GRB Monitoring System </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mascara/"> MASCARA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/blackgem/"> BlackGEM </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/extra/"> ExTrA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/test-bed/"> Test-Bed Telescope </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/"> APEX <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-375" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/artemis/"> ArTéMiS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/laboca/"> LABOCA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/saboca/"> SABOCA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/sepia/"> SEPIA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/apex-2a/"> APEX–2A </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/aszca/"> ASZCa </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/champ-plus/"> CHAMP+ </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/flash/"> FLASH </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/flash-plus/"> FLASH+ </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/mpi_11thz/"> MPI_1.1THz </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/p-artemis/"> P-ArTéMiS 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Interferometry </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/alma/receiver-bands/"> Receiver Bands </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/alma/residencia/"> ALMA Residencia </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/elt/"> ELT </a></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/"> Technology for Telescopes <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-397" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/active_optics/"> Active Optics </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/adaptive_optics/"> Adaptive Optics </a></li><li 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The more light we can collect, the more detailed information we can gather about the Universe. However, the image sensor, or the device attached to the telescope which converts an optical image into an electronic signal, can also increase these light-gathering properties.</p> <p>WFI, or the Wide Field Imager, is the best example of this concept. WFI is a detector similar to that found in your camera, but with a whopping 67 million pixels, installed at the <a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/ ">MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope</a> at <a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/">La Silla Observatory</a>. Such a detector is able to obtain detailed views of extended, very faint celestial objects. In terms of sensitivity, WFI goes to 24th <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitude_%28astronomy%29" target="_blank" rel="noopener">magnitude</a>, 40 million times fainter than the human eye can see.</p> <p><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/images/img_8139/"><img style="float: right; padding: 7px 0px 0px 20px;" src="/web/20210414232830im_/https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/potwmedium/img_8139.jpg" border="0"/></a>WFI is built around eight CCDs with high sensitivity that span a wavelength range from ultraviolet to near-infrared light. The size of the WFI detector is 12.5 × 12.5 centimetres — imagine that in your phone!</p> <p>One single WFI image is equivalent to 0.14 gigabytes of data, a huge quantity of information which must be read and transferred properly and efficiently from the chips to the computer. For that reason, ESO engineers developed a system called FIERA, a high-tech CCD controller that processes this information in only 27 seconds — the equivalent to reading a book at a rate of almost 1000 pages per second! Importantly, FIERA sustains this speed without adding noise, which could reduce the quality of the image. It was revolutionary at the time, and paved the way to the newer systems driving OmegaCAM on the VST, which is around four times bigger.</p> <p>When WFI arrived at La Silla it was part of the first generation of survey facilities at ESO, and thanks to its incredible capacity it has become one most iconic instruments of the observatory. More than 20 images of the <a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/images/archive/top100/">ESO Top 100</a> are taken with WFI, some of which are breathtaking. But most importantly, instruments like WFI allow astronomers to carry out observation programmes that have led to discoveries of some amazing objects in the Universe that can be studied in greater detail with bigger telescopes, like the <a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/vlt/">Very Large Telescope</a> at Paranal.</p> <p>What makes WFI even more special is its large collection of filters: over 50 large glass filters are mounted in a carousel in the instrument, and can be used to select a specific colour for the observations. This unique collection was designed to discover distant quasars and galaxies, and get an estimate of their distance using the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometric_redshift">photometric redshift</a> technique.</p> <p>WFI was created after a recommendation by the La Silla 2000 Working Group to offer this type of instrument to the astronomical community. It represents the outcome of a joint venture between ESO, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/http://www.mpg.de/mpia-en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie</a> (MPIA) and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/http://www.na.astro.it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte</a> (OAC). In October 2013, the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope was <a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13078/">handed back</a> to the MPIA.</p> <h2>Science highlights with WFI</h2> <ul> <li>Observations find that star clusters age at different rates (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1252/?lang">eso1252</a>)</li> <li>Astronomers find the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies found today (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1206/?lang">eso1206</a>)</li> <li>Observations suggest that planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1204/?lang">eso1204</a>)</li> <li>Galactic cannibalism brings an exoplanet of extragalactic origin within astronomers' reach (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1045/?lang">eso1045</a>)</li> <li>The Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666 (<a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1036/">eso1036</a>)</li> <li>Deepest Wide-Field Colour Image in the Southern Sky (<a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0302/">eso0302</a>)</li> <li>Two Saturnian moons found at La Silla (<a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0036/">eso0036</a>)</li> </ul> <div style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: center;"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/images/wfi_cc/"><img style="max-height: 400px;" src="/web/20210414232830im_/https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/medium/wfi_cc.jpg" alt="The Helix Nebula with WFI" border="0"/></a> <div><small><strong>The Helix Nebula with WFI.</strong> <em>This raw image, straight from the instrument, was used, together with many others, to produce the photo of the Helix Nebula further up this page. The images taken with astronomical instruments are always in intensity scale: the colour information is obtained by taking exposures through different glass filters. The images from the eight individual 8-Megapixel detectors are visible, separated by black gaps. In the final image, these are filled by combining images taken at slightly different positions. Some defects of the images are visible: long “bleeds” caused by bright stars saturating the detector, and bad columns causing bright or dark vertical lines.</em></small></div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <table class="table table-bordered" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <h3>WFI</h3> <p><small> The authoritative technical specifications as offered for astronomical observations are available from the <a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/lasilla/instruments/wfi.html">Science Operation page</a>.</small></p> <table class="table"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="60"><strong>Name:</strong></td> <td valign="top">Wide Field Imager</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="30"><strong>Site:</strong></td> <td valign="top">La Silla</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="30"><strong>Telescope:</strong></td> <td valign="top">MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Focus:</strong></td> <td valign="top">Cassegrain</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Type:</strong></td> <td valign="top">Imager</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Wavelength coverage:</strong></td> <td valign="top">34 x 33 arcminutes</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Spatial resolution:</strong></td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Spectral resolution:</strong></td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>First light date:</strong></td> <td valign="top">eso9903</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Images taken with the instrument:</strong></td> <td valign="top"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/images/archive/search/?adv=&instrument=17">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Images of the instrument:</strong></td> <td valign="top"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/images/archive/search/?adv=&subject_name=WFI">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p><strong>Videos of the instrument:</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/videos/archive/search/?subject_name=WFI">Link</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Press Releases with the instrument:</strong></td> <td valign="top"><a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/search/?published_until_year=0&published_until_day=0&description=&title=&instruments=17&subject_name=&published_since_day=0&published_since_month=0&published_until_month=0&id=&published_since_year=0">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Data papers:</strong></td> <td valign="top"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/http://telbib.eso.org/index.php?&flimiti=off&fq[]=instrument:WFI">Link</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/policies/publications.html">ESO data citation policy</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><strong>Science goals:</strong></td> <td valign="top">Support the determination of photometric redshifts of distant objects.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p><strong>Consortium</strong>:</p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p>Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA) in Heidelberg,Germany.</p> <p>Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Italy.</p> <p>ESO</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- #body --> <div class="row footernote"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/mailto:information@eso.org">Send us your comments!</a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3"> <a href="/web/20210414232830/https://www.eso.org/public/outreach/newsletters/esonews/">Subscribe to receive news from ESO in your language</a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232830/https://www.cdn77.com/">Accelerated by CDN77</a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3"> <a 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