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    The ESO 3.6 m Telescope is an optical reflecting telescope run by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla Observatory, Chile since 1977, with a clear...
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    infrared telescopes at the La Silla site: the New Technology Telescope (NTT), the 3.6-m ESO Telescope, and the 2.2-m Max-Planck-ESO Telescope (MPG/ESO Telescope)...
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    Chile. ESO has built and operated some of the largest and most technologically advanced telescopes. These include the 3.6 m New Technology Telescope, an...
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    largest optical telescope in the Southern hemisphere from 1976 until 1998, when the first 8-metre telescope of the ESO Very Large Telescope opened. Currently...
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    The MPG/ESO telescope is a 2.2-metre f/8.0 (17.6-metre) ground-based telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile. It was built...
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    Telescopes with aperture diameter >8 metres This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of 3.0 metres (120 in) or greater...
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    largest optical and near-infrared extremely large telescope. Part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) agency, it is located on top of Cerro Armazones...
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    then a close second to the Víctor M. Blanco Telescope from 1976 until 1998, when the first ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) was opened. The AAT was credited...
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    of the ESO 3.6 m Telescope, whilst the Prime Focus Spectrograph is connected to the prime focus of the Subaru telescope. Catadioptric telescopes Honeycomb...
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    The Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) is a 15-metre diameter radio telescope. It was originally located at the La Silla Observatory in Chile...
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    Observatory of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), namely a secondary peak 1,500 m from the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The consortium selected the UK Astronomy...
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    Star trails photographed by facing northwest. Star trails over the ESO 3.6 m Telescope. A star trail photograph showing the apparent motion of stars around...
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    European Southern Observatory (ESO). It is located in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile on Cerro Paranal at 2,635 m (8,645 ft) altitude, 120 km (70 mi)...
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    with longer exposures yielding longer arcs. Star trails over the ESO 3.6 m Telescope A star trail photograph showing the apparent motion of stars around...
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    The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory...
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    The Isaac Newton Telescope or INT is a 2.54 m (100 in) optical telescope run by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...
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    original on 2006-10-19. "The ESO 100-m OWL optical telescope concept". www.eso.org. "VLOT } The Very Large Optical Telescope for CI am Canada". May 2, 2009...
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    The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a telescope located at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed in an enclosure...
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    around this time by the ESO Sky Survey Atlas, a large-scale survey of the Southern Sky conducted using the 1-metre Schmidt telescope in La Silla Observatory...
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    has a 1.4m Coudé Auxiliary Telescope on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope List of astronomical observatories "Mt. Hamilton Telescopes: Carnegie Double Astrograph"...
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  • ADONIS, a cipher machine ADONIS, an adaptive optics system on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope Adonis (plant), a genus in the plant family Ranunculaceae Species...
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    Media related to Very Large Telescope at Wikimedia Commons ESO VLT official site for the 8 m and 1.8 m telescopes. ESO VLTI official site for the interferometer...
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    2013. "ESO: Danish 1.54-m Telescope". Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2010-11-12. "New York Times "NEW HARVARD TELESCOPE.; Sixty-Inch...
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    examples are the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck telescopes and the ESO Very Large Telescope. The Ritchey–Chrétien telescope was invented in the early 1910s...
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    Proxima Centauri (category M-type main-sequence stars)
    two spectrographs: HARPS on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope at La Silla Observatory and UVES on the 8 m Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory. Several attempts...
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  • Follow-up observations of Kelu-1 include: optical spectroscopy using the ESO 3.6 m telescope at La Silla (1997 March), infrared spectroscopy using IRCAM3 and...
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    Instabilités Solaries (THEMIS) Solar Telescope: 90 cm diameter, built 1996, operated by France and Italy. GREGOR Solar Telescope: 1.5 m, operated by a German consortium...
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    in Valparaiso, Chile. Bibcode:2005ASPC..344..242K. "Swedish-ESO 15m Submillimeter Telescope (SEST)". Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Retrieved...
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    The BTA-6 (Russian: Большой Телескоп Альт-азимутальный, romanized: Bolshoi Teleskop Alt-azimutalnyi, lit. 'Large Altazimuth Telescope') is a 6-metre (20 ft)...
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    measurement accuracy to 1 m/s via the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) installed on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope at La Silla Observatory...
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