Leonard Euler Telescope
A 1.2-meter Swiss reflector, built at the Geneva Observatory, located at
La Silla Observatory, operated by the University
of Geneva, and named in honor of the famous Swiss mathematician. It is used
specifically, in conjunction with the Coralie
spectrograph, to conduct high-precision radial
velocity measurements principally to search for large extrasolar
planets in the southern celestial hemisphere. Its first success was
the discovery of a planet in orbit around Gliese
86.
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