The Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory
An observatory at an altitude of 2,300 m on Cerro Las Campanas, 100 km northeast of La Serena, Chile, which was founded in 1971 and is owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC. It is home to the twin 6.5-m Magellan Telescopes, the 2.5-m Irénée du Pont Telescope, opened in 1976, and the 1-m Swope Telescope, opened in 1971. The clear, dark skies here, and at the neighboring La Silla Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, offer excellent seeing unsurpassed anywhere on Earth.
