by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 9, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), April 2025 The Maunakea Observatories are a group of astronomical research stations operated by independent institutions and located on the Maunakea mountain on the island of Hawaii. There, they make use of the high altitude, dark sky...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 3, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), April 2025 In the Davis Mountains in Texas, USA, at an elevation of ca. 2000 meters, lies the McDonald Observatory, operated by the University of Texas at Austin. The dry, relatively cloud-free climate, high elevation, and the fact it is...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 2, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
The Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs is an instrument consisting of two spectrographs, designed to look for Earth-sized exoplanets using the radial velocity method. It is installed at...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 1, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), April 2025 The Observatorios de Canarias are two high-performing astronomical observatories on the Canary Islands Tenerife and La Palma in the Atlantic Ocean. The area with the high mountains, comparatively dry air and low average cloud...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Mar 31, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
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...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Mar 27, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Observatories and telescopes
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...
