La Silla Observatory
An observatory atop the 2,400-meter La Silla mountain that borders the southern
extremity of the Atacama desert in Chile, about 160 km north of La Serena
at 29º 15' S, 70º 44' W. Operated by the European
Southern Observatory (ESO), its instruments include a 3.6-m reflector
opened in 1976, the 3.5-m New Technology telescope, opened in 1989, a 1.52-m
reflector, opened in 1968, a 1-m Schmidt, opened in 1972, and 1-m photometric
telescope, opened in 1968. Also at La Silla is the 15-m Swedish-ESO Submillimetre
Telescope, the Leonard Euler Telescope
(with extrasolar planet detection),
and a variety of other instruments owned by individual nations.
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• OBSERVATORIES
AND TELESCOPES
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