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Hace 3 días · Santiago and La Silla Observatory, Chile, February 12 - 23, 2024. ESO is happy to announce the next La Silla Observing School, which will be held at the ESO premises in Santiago de Chile and at the La Silla Observatory, from February 12th to February 23rd.
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La Silla was the first ESO observatory built in Chile. Its...
- About La Silla
Hace 1 día · Guide Star Finder: A Web tool aimed at searching for suitable adaptive optics guide stars, either for single objects as for a list of observing targets. The tool is based on the USNO-SA2.0 catalogue. Work is in progress to use USNO-B catalogue as an option. The tool also offers the possibility to choose the selection criteria from a short list ...
Hace 3 días · ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a flagship facility for European ground-based astronomy. It is one of the world's most advanced optical telescopes, consisting of four Unit Telescopes with main mirrors of 8.2m diameter and four movable 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes. The telescopes can work together, to form a giant ‘interferometer ...
Hace 3 días · La Silla, located in the southern Atacama Desert 600 kilometres (370 mi) north of Santiago de Chile at an altitude of 2,400 metres (7,900 ft), is the home of ESO's original observation site. Like other observatories in the area, La Silla is far from sources of light pollution and has one of the darkest night skies on Earth. [33]
Hace 22 horas · Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. Astrophysics. ... This allowed him and his team to initially prove at the La Silla Observatory and then at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) over long-term observations of the orbits of stars near the center of the Milky Way that there is a supermassive black hole of about 4.3 million solar masses.
Hace 1 día · ESO is the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. It operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
