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Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). It is located in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile on Cerro Paranal at 2,635 m (8,645 ft) altitude, 120 km (70 mi) south of Antofagasta.
Although ESO is headquartered in Germany, its telescopes and observatories are in northern Chile, where the organisation operates advanced ground-based astronomical facilities: La Silla, which hosts the New Technology Telescope (NTT) Paranal, where the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It consists of four individual telescopes, each equipped with a primary mirror that measures 8.2 metres (27 ft) in diameter.
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a telescope located at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed in an enclosure immediately adjacent to the four Very Large Telescope (VLT) Unit Telescopes on the summit of Cerro Paranal. The VST is a wide-field survey telescope with a field of view twice as broad as the ...
Following the decision in 1963 to approve Chile as the site for the ESO observatory, [3] scouting parties were sent to various locations to assess their suitability. The site that was decided upon was La Silla in the southern part of the Atacama Desert, 600 km north of Santiago de Chile and at an altitude of 2400 metres.
ESO/NRAO/NAOJ joint site testing with Chile. May 1998 Start of phase 1 (design & development). June 1999 European/U.S. memorandum of understanding for design & development. February 2003 Final European / North American agreement, with 50% of funding from ESO, and 50% of funding shared between USA and Canada. April 2003
The President of Chile Michelle Bachelet meets senior ESO Director General Tim de Zeeuw. [1] In 2011, [2] Chile was home to 42% of the world's astronomical infrastructure, consisting principally of telescopes. In 2015, it was estimated that Chile would contain more than 50% of the global astronomical infrastructure by 2030. [3]
Cerro Paranal is a mountain in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and is the home of the Paranal Observatory.Prior to the construction of the observatory, the summit was a horizontal control point with an elevation of 2,664 m (8,740 ft); [1] now it is 2,635 m (8,645 ft) above sea level.