The VLT Survey Telescope Opens to the Sky : History of a Commissioning

The Messenger 146 – December 2011 to be calculated at the net of the Chilean time). These numbers reflect the effort made by INAF to boost the ESO Public Surveys, and take into account the delays in the project. INAF was also granted a number of hours, equivalent to 28 nights at one VLT UT, to be evenly distributed over an interval of ten years and to be used exclusively for follow-up programmes for INAF–VST surveys.