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ESO Schmidt Telescope

(1 meter telescope in Chile with a wide field-of-view)

The ESO Schmidt Telescope is a 1-meter Schmidt camera at La Silla Observatory, Chile in operation since 1971. Its field of view is 5.4° by 5.4°, intended for surveys, originally using photography, producing widely-used sets of plates. More recently, it has been the home of QUEST, a CCD-based survey-camera installed in 2009 after previous use on the Palomar 48 Inch Telescope.


(telescope,reflector,visible light,ground,Chile,ESO)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Silla_Observatory#ESO_Schmidt_telescope
https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/1mschmidt/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972rsta.conf..137H/abstract
http://www.astro.yale.edu/mschwamb/Quest_La_Silla_KBO_Survey/Telescope_and_Camera.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1980Msngr..22....7S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991Msngr..63...25B/abstract

Referenced by pages:
DENIS
ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO (B) Atlas
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Hamburg/ESO Survey (HE)
La Silla Observatory (LSO)
LaSilla-QUEST Variability Survey (LSQ)
Magellanic Catalogue of Stars (MACS)
QUEST
Schmidt camera
SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (SSS)
Tonantzintla Surveys (Ton)
Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC)

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