VLT Survey Telescope

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is an 2.6-meter reflector telescope for surveys, housed next to the ESO VLT at the Paranal Observatory on the Atacama Desert in Chile, which began operation in 2011. It includes adaptive optics. It has a field of view of 1 square degree and hosts just one instrument, a 268-megapixel imager called OmegaCAM. Among the telescope's surveys:

• VST ATLAS (SDSS-like coverage of some of the southern sky).
• Kilo-degree Survey (KiDS).
• VST photometric Hα Survey of the Southern galactic plane (VPHAS+).