Las Campanas Observatory

The Las Campanas Observatory - ( LCO ) is an astronomical observatory owned and run by the Carnegie Institution for Science. It is located near La Serena in Chile. The site was chosen because of its weather -order for the observatory: it is mostly above the clouds and offers 300 cloud-free days per year of studying the skies.

The observatory houses a number of telescopes. The main instruments are the two Magellan telescopes with 6.5 m diameter mirror. In addition, there is the " Irenee du Pont " with 2.5 m diameter mirror and the " Henrietta Swope " with 1.0 meters, named after Irenee du Pont and Henrietta Hill Swope. The latter is characterized by a large angle of 2 °, which is obtained through a particular Ritchey -Chrétien configuration with a relatively large 25 cm secondary mirror and a Gascoigne corrector.

The Irenee du Pont can be operated with the following instruments:

  • Direct CCD Camera
  • Wide Field IR Camera
  • Wide Field Reimaging CCD Camera
  • Echelle Spectrograph
  • ModSpec, a spectrograph, which can also be used at the Henrietta Swope telescope.

For the Henrietta Swope Telescope, the following instruments are available:

  • Direct CCD Camera
  • HgCdTe infrared camera
  • ModSpec Slit Spectrograph

Also located on the premises nor the 1.3m Warsaw University Telescope and a 13- inch refractor.

Weblink

  • Homepage of the Las Campanas Observatory ( german)

- 29.01 - 70.703055555556Koordinaten: 29 ° 0 ' 36 " S, 70 ° 42 ' 11 " W

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