Leonhard Euler Telescope

The Leonhard Euler Telescope also Swiss -1 ,2 -m Leonhard Euler telescope or short Euler telescope is a reflecting telescope with a 1.2 m aperture of the Geneva Observatory at La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

The telescope is since its completion in 1998, operated by the Swiss University Genf.Es was named after the mathematician Leonhard Euler.

Together with the Belgian Mercator telescope at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven both telescopes were part of the Southern Sky Extrasolar Planet Search Programs, the number of extrasolar planets could discover.

CORALIE Echelle spectrograph of specially was used. The first planet was one of those in orbit around Gliese 86, a planet of about 4 Jupiter masses and an orbital period of approximately 15.8 days. Then there are several other extrasolar planets with this telescope were either discovered or studied.

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