This Observatory is a home for many telescopes. It is built at a height of 2400 meters on the fringes of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Since the 1960s, La Silla has been an ESO stronghold. The La Silla Observatory is the first of its kind to be certified for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 Quality Management System.
ESO operates the following telescopes: The 3.58-m New Technology Telescope (NTT) was the first in the world to have a computer-controlled main mirror (adaptive optics), which is now used by the majority of the world’s current large telescopes; and the ESO 3.6 m telescope is the world’s foremost extrasolar planet hunter: High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Hunter (HARPS), an unrivaled precision spectrograph.
The observatory also includes the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope, the Danish 1.54-m telescope, the Swiss 1.2-m Leonhard Euler Telescope, the Rapid Eye Mount Telescope, the TRAnsiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope-South (TRAPPIST), the ESO 1-m Schmidt telescope, and the ESO 1-m telescope.
I felt pretty awesome using the 1.54-m telescope on my first observatory visit, of course under the supervision of my supervisor.
We conducted some microlensing, planetary transit, and LEO-sat trail observations. It was very great!
A glimpse of my Astro-photos 🙂
Showing the ESO/MPG 2.2-m Telescope, NTT and the 3.6-m Telescope
The amazing Milky Way galaxy
3.6-m Telescope
StarDustWaves 