Completed projects

Local Volume Mapper (South) of the SDSS-V for the Las Campanas observatory. Contact scientist at MPIA: Thomas Herbst more

NOT Transient Explorer for the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). Contact Scientist at MPIA: Heidi Korhonen more

Upgrade of PANIC to use a monolithic HAWAII-4RG detector consisting of 4096x4096 pixels.
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Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs – for the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope Contact scientist at MPIA: Ralf Launhardt/Martin Kürster more

The Universe in Motion. Precision Astrometry with the ESO/VLTI. Contact scientist at MPIA: Wolfgang Brandner more

Interferometric NIR camera at the LBT. Contact scientist at MPIA: Tom Herbst (PI) more

LBT NIR spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral-Field Unit for Extragalactic Research, two NIR spectrographs for the LBT; LUCI-1 and LUCI-2, operational. Contact scientist at MPIA: Roland Gredel more

A mid-infrared imaging spectro-interferometer for the ESO/VLT. more

PAnoramic Near-Infrared Camera for the Calar Alto 2.2m telescope. more

High-Contrast Adaptive Optics Instrument for finding and observing extra-solar Planets – for the ESO/VLT. Contact scientist at MPIA: Markus Feldt more

Advanced Rayleigh guided Ground layer adaptive Optics System, the laser guide star system for the LBT. Contact Scientist at MPIA: Wolfgang Gässler more

ASTrometric and phase-Referenced Astronomy upgrade of the KECK NIR interferometer. Contact Scientist at MPIA: Jörg-Uwe Pott more

Lucky Imaging for high spatial resolution. more

Lucky Imaging Camera at the 3.5m NTT. more

Exoplanet Search with PRIma, the Differential Delay Line project for PRIMA (Phase-Referenced Imaging and Micro-arcsecond Astrometry). Differential delay lines installed in Sept. 2008, integration and tests of other subsystems in 2009, project on hold. more

Large Area Imager for Calar Alto. more

The Large Area Imager for the Wise Observatory. more

LBT Software Development. The MPIA contributed to this project until mid-2009. more

Mid-infrared Interferometric Instrument for VLTI. Decomissioned. more

NAOS-CONICA adaptive optics system. more

Near Infrared Wide-Field Prime Focus Camera (2K detector). more

Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer. Operational 2009-2013. more

The laser for the VLT. Decomissioned.

Pyramid Infrared Wavefront Sensor. Decomissioned. more

Adaptive Optics with a Layer for Astronomy. Decommissioned. more

COUDÉ with MAGIC. Decomissioned. more

Infrared Space Observatory Photometer. Decommissioned in 1998.

MPI for Astronomy general-purpose near-IR Camera. Decomissioned. more

Mid infrared Array eXpandible. Decomissioned. more

Multi Object Spectrogragh for Calar Alto. more

New Infrared Multimode Imager / Spectrometer for the Cassegrain Focus. Decomissioned. more

Near Infrared Wide-Field Prime Focus Camera. Decomissioned. more

Double spectrograph for the 3.5m telescope. more

Wide field imager on the ESO/MPG 2.2m telescope. more