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    The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) is an astronomical observatory located on the summit of Mt.Cerro Tololo in the Coquimbo Region of northern...
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    operations of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the United States with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. On October 1, 2019, NOAO...
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    Extremely Large Telescope La Silla Observatory Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory European Northern Observatory VVV Survey "Very Large Telescope:...
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    Robert Williams (astronomer) (category Use American English from March 2023)
    of Arizona in Tucson for 18 years and the director of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory from 1986 to 1993. Williams studied at the University of...
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    observed on 5 November 2012 by American astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The discovery was...
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    Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (category Astronomical observatories in Chile)
    Michigan State University, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) (part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, NOAO), and the University...
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    los Muchachos Observatory in Spain, and Paranal Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.[citation needed] Specific research study...
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    2001 by astronomers of the Deep Ecliptic Survey at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, and was announced in July 2001. The object is named after...
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    stellar cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern...
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    trans-Neptunian object first observed on 26 March 2014, at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La Serena, Chile. It is a possible dwarf planet, a member...
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    using the Dark Energy Survey's DECam imager at NOIRLab's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory on 13 August 2021. 2021 PH27 has the smallest semi-major...
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  • discovered on 6 November 2004, by American astronomer Andrew C. Becker at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. It never gets closer than...
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    Víctor M. Blanco Telescope (category Astronomical observatories in Chile)
    aperture telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile on the summit of Mt. Cerro Tololo. Commissioned in 1974 and completed...
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    North telescope of the Mauna Kea Observatories as well as the 4.0-m reflector of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Valetudo has a diameter of about...
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    Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope (category Kitt Peak National Observatory)
    identical Víctor M. Blanco Telescope was later built at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, in Chile. In 1961, after work had moved forward on other...
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    Array Paranal Observatory La Silla Observatory Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory "Observatorio Cerro Armazones » About Observatorio Cerro Armazones...
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    obtained by Arturo Gómez, support technical staff at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory near Vicuña, Chile. The photos suggested that there was...
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  • University, and Nicholas B. Suntzeff, a staff astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. The original team first proposed for the...
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    Paranal Observatory Very Large Telescope Cerro Armazones Observatory Extremely Large Telescope Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Cerro Tololo Inter-American...
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    System. It was discovered by astronomers at the Chilean Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory on 29 July 2000. At aphelion it is over 1,000 AU from the...
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  • collaborators with the Curtis Schmidt telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile and analyzed by Roger Cayrel and collaborators...
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    2-meter-diameter millimeter-wave telescope located at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. They detected the presence of the spiral...
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  • D. Harold McNamara (category American astronomers)
    Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar Observatories in California, guest investigator at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile and principal scientist...
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    Bank Observatory is directly and tangibly associated with events and ideas of outstanding universal significance. Cheshire portal Cerro Tololo Inter-American...
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  • Research Telescope System (SMARTS), a group of telescopes at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine...
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    is a list of the highest astronomical observatories in the world, considering only ground-based observatories and ordered by elevation above mean sea...
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    the U.S. Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, and at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, each using a 1.3-meter...
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    optical observatories — Kitt Peak; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American...
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    telescopes. Notable astronomical observatories in the district include Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and La Silla Observatory. The Andes of Norte Chico...
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    Park. The Southern Operations Center is located on the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) campus near La Serena, Chile. The "Gemini North"...
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