Leonhard Euler Telescope
Telescope Leonhard Euler Telescope |
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The Euler telescope in the foreground on the right, the ESO 3.6 m telescope in the background distant on the hill | |
Type | Parabolic mirror |
Location |
La Silla Observatory , Chile
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height | 2400 m |
Geographic coordinates | 29 ° 15 '34 " S , 70 ° 43' 59" W |
wavelength | Optically |
Aperture | 1.2 m
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Installation | 1998 |
The Leonhard Euler Telescope and Swiss 1.2-meter Leonhard Euler Telescope , or shortly Euler telescope is a reflecting telescope with 1.2 m aperture of the Observatory of Geneva at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
The telescope is since its completion in the year 1998 by the Swiss University of Geneva operated. It was named after the mathematician Leonhard Euler .
Together with the Belgian Mercator telescope from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , both telescopes were part of the Southern Sky Extrasolar Planet Search Program , which was able to discover numerous extrasolar planets.
The CORALIE Echelle spectrograph was used especially for this . The first planet was the one of those in orbit of Gliese 86th , a planet of about 4 Jupiter masses and an orbital period of about 15.8 days . After that, several other extrasolar planets were either discovered or studied with this telescope.
Indoor shot in fisheye perspective
additional
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss 1.2-meter Leonhard Euler Telescope In: ster.kuleuven.be
- ↑ Swiss 1.2-meter Leonhard Euler Telescope In: eso.org
- ^ Southern Sky extrasolar planet search program. In: obsunige.ch. Retrieved January 29, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Leonard Euler Telescope. (No longer available online.) In: daviddarling.info. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ D. Queloz, M. Mayor, L. Weber, A. Blecha, M. Burnet, B. Confino, D. Naef, F. Pepe, among others: A planet orbiting the star Gliese 86 . In: Astrophysics . 1999. arxiv : astro-ph / 9910223 .
- ↑ Richard West: Exoplanets Galore! (ESO Press Release 13/00). In: astro.berkeley.edu. Retrieved January 29, 2015 .