Next-Generation Telescope Survey NGTS
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), March 2025 The Next Generation Transit Survey NGTS is a ground-based survey looking for extrasolar planets via the transit method. It uses an array of 12 remote-controlled and automated telescopes located at ESO’s Paranal...
HARPS
This page is currently a work in progress. The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, or HARPS for short, is a high-resolution spectrograph installed at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory ESO. Since its first light...
VLT – ESO’s Very Large Telescope
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), March 2025 Located in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile as part of the Paranal Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is one of the largest and most advanced optical telescope facilities in the world. It is operated by the...
Observatoire de Haute-Provence
This page is currently a work in progress. The Observatoire de Haute-Provence is an observatory established in 1937 and located in South-Eastern France, about 100km north of Marseille. Among many different research activities relating to astronomy, atmospheric science...