Las Campanas Observatory
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| Las Campanas Observatory | |||||||||||
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 From background left to foreground right, the du Pont, Swope, and twin Magellan telescopes. |
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| Organization | Carnegie Institution for Science | ||||||||||
| Location | Cerro Las Campanas, Atacama, Chile | ||||||||||
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| Altitude | 2,500 m | ||||||||||
| Established | 1971 | ||||||||||
| Website http://www.lco.cl/ |
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Las Campanas Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution for Science. The headquarters is located in La Serena, Chile 29°54′37″S 71°14′27″W / 29.91041°S 71.24076°W and the observatory is about 100 km to the northeast.
[edit] Telescopes
- Magellan Telescopes — Twin 6.5 m, christened Walter Baade and Landon Clay
- Du Pont Telescope — 2.5-meter (100-inch), named after Irénée du Pont and in operation since 1977 [1]
- Swope Telescope — 1 m, named after Henrietta Swope
- Warsaw Telescope — 1.3 m, owned by Warsaw University Observatory
- Giant Magellan Telescope (planned) — 24.5 m effective (seven 8.4 m segments)
- NANTEN Telescope (closed) — 4m millimeter-wavelength radio telescope, transported to Atacama desert, Chile.
Also located here are the small "Pi of the sky" wide-angle cameras that filmed the appearance of GRB 080319B.[1]
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