Las Campanas Observatory
Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory
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| Organization | Carnegie Institution for Science | ||||||||
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| Code | 304 | ||||||||
| Location | Atacama Region, Chile | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°00′53″S 70°41′33″W / 29.0146°S 70.6926°WCoordinates: 29°00′53″S 70°41′33″W / 29.0146°S 70.6926°W | ||||||||
| Altitude | 2,380 metres (7,810 ft) | ||||||||
| Established | 1971 | ||||||||
| Website | Las Campanas Observatory | ||||||||
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| Magellan Telescopes | 6.5 m reflectors |
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| du Pont Telescope | 2.5 m reflector |
| Warsaw Telescope | 1.3 m reflector |
| Swope Telescope | 1 m reflector |
Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS). It is in the southern Atacama Desert of Chile in the Atacama Region approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of the city of La Serena. The LCO telescopes and other facilities are near the north end of a 7 km (4.3 mi) long mountain ridge. Cerro Las Campanas, near the southern end and over 2,500 m (8,200 ft) high, is the future home of the Giant Magellan Telescope.
LCO was established in 1969 and is the primary observing facility of CIS. It supplanted Mount Wilson Observatory in that role due to increasing light pollution in the Los Angeles area. The headquarters of Carnegie Observatories is located in Pasadena, California, while the main office in Chile is in La Serena next to the University of La Serena and a short distance from the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy facility.
On February 24, 1987 at LCO, Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde became the first official observers of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A).
du Pont telescope
Warsaw telescope dome and control building
Warsaw telescope
Clay telescope (one of the Magellan telescopes)
Magellan telescopes
Magellan telescopes, Warsaw and Swope telescopes (LTR)
ASAS telescopes
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