Read the survey description » VPHAS+ is imaging the Southern Milky Way in visible light (u, g, r, i, Hα) at ~1 arcsecond resolution down to >20th magnitude.
Image: ESO/S. Brunier
View the gallery » New images which demonstrate the quality of the VPHAS+ data, including observations towards Baade's Window, have been added to the gallery.
Image: Baade's Window (VPHAS+/G. Barentsen)
Read the survey paper » VPHAS+ uses the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile. A reference paper describing the survey strategy, the data processing, and the filter system is available now.
Image: ESO/G. Lombardi
Read about data access » The first public data release, providing reduced images and single-band source lists from the first 9 months of data-taking, has been made available to the public.
Image: Lagoon Nebula (ESO/VPHAS+)
Read the paper on ADS » Early VPHAS+ data has unveiled an ionized nebula around a red supergiant in the massive star cluster Westerlund 1. The object is discussed in Wright et al. 2014 (MNRAS).
Image: Westerlund 1 (VPHAS+/N. Wright)
VPHAS+ uses VST/OmegaCAM to survey the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge in u, g, r, i, Hα down to >20th magnitude.
Our photometry allows a range of rare and short-lived object types to be discovered and characterised.
Our images can be used to construct wide-area mosaics of star-forming regions and extended objects.