Videos illustrating the technology of telescopes and scientific instrumentation

The ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) has been under construction since 2014 on Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The first images are expected in 2029. The instruments (cameras, spectrographs) are being built by research institutes such… more

How can the performance of an earthbound telescope be improved? Silvia Scheithauer reports on the CIAO instrument, the adaptive optics for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. more

Astronomical (imaging) data are generally heavily post-processed, and/or analysed in a complex way. Especially high-contrast observations require specific post-processing methods to remove image residuals that remain after all the sophisticated… more

In this short documentary, Oliver Krause reports on the MPIA's contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope and other future projects. The documentary was filmed as part of the YouTube channel "Quasi klar!" at the MPIA.The video provides… more

MICADO is one of the three first instruments for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), Europe’s next-generation ground-based telescope for optical and infrared wavelengths which is currently under construction at the ESO site at Cerro Armazones in… more