Instrument Host Overview
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The 2.2m telescope (which is a fork mounted Ritchey-Chretien) was
built by Zeiss and has been in use at La Silla since 1984. It is on
indefinite loan to ESO from the Max Planck Gesellschaft. Two thirds of
observing time is available to ESO observers. Operation and
maintenance of the telescope is the responsibility of ESO.
 
 
  Location
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    The observatory location data given here are geodetic latitude and
    east longitude, based on values from the Astronomical Almanac,
    1989. The geocentric site radius was determined using the MERIT
    1983 earth figure, equatorial radius = 6378.137 km and flattening
    of the reference spheroid = 1/298.257.
 
    Latitude:                      -29.258  Degrees
    Longitude:                     -70.737  Degrees
    Earth radius at observatory:    6375.4  Kilometers