Involved people at OAB: Greggio.
OmegaCAM is a wide field optical CCD camera which
will be mounted on the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) on Paranal. The main
purpose of VST, a 2.6 m telescope which is being built by the Osservatorio di
Capodimonte and will be managed by ESO, is to carry on long term surveys, and
to provide targets for the VLT. OmegaCAM will be equipped with a
16K
16K
pixels CCD mosaic, to cover a 1 square degree field of view, and is expected
to become operative during the year 2002. The camera is built by a
consortium of three european institutions and ESO. The instistutions are:
Universitaets Sternwarte Muenchen (Germany), NOVA-Kapteyn Instutuut Groningen
(The Netherlands) and Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy), each
coordinating the activity of other institutes in their home countries which
are associated to the project. Bologna participates to the OmegaCAM project
with the contribution of 1.5 man/year provided by Laura Greggio, as
responsible of the project documentation.
During the year 1999 (ahead of the OmegaCAM Kick-Off meeting, which took place on April 7 and 8, 2000) most of Laura Greggio's work for the project was aimed at creating an efficient way for the communications among the various people participating to the project. She developed a web site, accessible from the Universitaets Sternwarte Home Page under the title OmegaCAM, which contains all the relevant information/documents that need to be seen/evaluated by all the persons working for the consortium. Laura Greggio is continuously updating the web page, ensuring that the communications are effectively and efficiently maintained within the consortium.