X-shooter: a medium-resolution, wide-band spectrograph for the VLT
  X-shooter is the first second-generation instrument for the ESO Very Large Telescope and will be installed in 2008. It is intended to become the most powerful optical & near-infrared medium-resolution spectrograph in the world, with a unique spectral coverage from 300 to 2500 nm in one shot. The X-shooter consortium members are from Denmark, France, Italy, The Netherlands and ESO. 
L. Kaper (Univ. of Amsterdam), S. D'Odorico (ESO), F. Hammer (GEPI),   R. Pallavicini (INAF), P. Kjaergaard Rasmussen (NBI),...