ESO-VLT Instrumentation. The Control Software for the FLAMES-GIRAFFE-UVES Observing Facility

The FLAMES-GIRAFFE-UVES observing facility is installed at the Nasmyth A focus of UT2 (Kueyen) telescope unit of the VLT. It has been commissioned during 2002 and is offered starting from April 2003. This paper briefly describes the FLAMES structure and its control software, that has been fully designed and implemented at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste.