ESO 3.6m Telescope

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About

ESO 3.6m Telescope

(reflector telescope at La Silla)

The ESO 3.6m Telescope is a European Southern Observatory (ESO) reflector telescope residing at the La Silla Observatory (LSO) in Chile, in operation since 1977. Current instruments:

HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher).
NIRPS (for Near Infrared Planet Searcher).

Some past instruments:

CES - spectrograph.
EFOSC2 - "ESO Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera 2".
TIMMI-2 - "Thermal Infrared Multimode Instrument".
ADONIS - "adaptive optics near infrared system".

(telescope,reflector,visible light,infrared,ground,Chile,ESO) Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESO_3.6_m_Telescope
https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/lasilla/telescopes/3p6.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990Msngr..61...27B/abstract
Referenced by pages:
Atacama Desert
equatorial mount
ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey (ENACS)
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
HARPS
La Silla Observatory (LSO)
monolithic mirror
NIRPS
Zeeman-Doppler imaging (ZDI)