SofI Status and News Updates
On this page, we list the main changes that affected the instrument
and this web site. For earlier news see
this page, and for earlier updates see
this page
SofI Status
As of 2012-10-04 SofI is in normal operation.
Updates
- As of 2012-10-04 there are 596 papers, based on SofI data, and the number is growing. Check
ESO Telescope Bibliography.
- The problem with the GenericSpectro and GenericImaging templates was solved: from now on the guiding
option B must be used for guided observations, and N must be used for non-guided observations (2012-05-10).
- SofI User Manual ver. 2.30 released; autoguiding info updated (May 10, 2012).
- SofI User Manual ver. 2.20 released; global overhaul of the web page, particularly the Tools and Data reduction pages; update of the SofI specific visitor page; new bad pixel mask, new ZJJsHKs special dome flats, new ZJJsHKs illumination corrections, distortion maps for spectrosocpy (Blue, Red, H and K set ups), photometric zero points (May 23, 2011).
- Web-page clean up, correction of obsolete links, and migration of the entire calibration fits archive to a new
ftp repository (Apr 14, 2011).
- New/updated:
bad pixel mask,
linearity correction,
gain, read-out-noise,
zero points and atmospheric extinction coefficients,
illumination corrections in all broad band filters, and some web page cleanup/update (Aug 2010).
Press Releases (with lot of pretty pictures)
