La Silla Observatory

La Silla Observatory is an observatory in Chile with eighteen telescopes that study the stars. The observatory is one of the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. La Silla is a 2,400 meter high mountain that is found in the far southern part of the Atacama Desert. It can be found about 160 kilometers north of La Serena, 27 kilometers south of the Las Campanas Observatory, and about 100 kilometers north of the Cerro Tololo Observatory.

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La Silla Observatory Media

• The 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory.

• The NTT telescope

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  The MPG/ESO, ESO Schmidt, NTT, and ESO 3.6 telescopes (left to right)

• The delicate central spiral symbolizes a serpent while the rest of the space is taken up by strange little figures, together with some simple geometric motifs and quadrupeds.

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  Stars rotate around the southern celestial pole during a night at La Silla

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  Jupiter (top), Venus (left), and Mercury (right) nearly align themselves in the sky.

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  Ramps lead to the NTT. The Euler Telescope is to the right. (Seen from the ESO 3.6 Telescope.)

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  Morning Light Over La Silla.

• Telescope Domes clustered at La Silla

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  La Silla Observatory at sunset

• La Silla Trailer.webm

  This is the trailer of ESO's La Silla Observatory, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2009. When it began operations, it was the largest astronomical observatory of its time, and it is still one of the most scientifically productive in ground-based astronomy.

Related pages

• Very Large Telescope

Other websites

• Official ESO - La Silla webpage Archived 2007-05-09 at the Wayback Machine