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 has a field of view of 1 square degree. Among its 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+).