Dear LCO community, Due to additional Covid cases and a shortage of staff, we will be extending the closure of the Clay telescope through February 22, 2022. We will provide another update next week. Thank you for your continued understanding. Best, John Mulchaey, Polo Infante and David Osip
One hundred teachers participated in the workshop “Use of simulators for teaching stars and constellations”, given by Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) in the tenth version of the Astronomy School for Teachers, organized by the Millennium Nucleus Titans and the Center for Astrophysics and Related Technologies (CATA). This school, held between January 27 and 28, 2022,…
Dear LCO community, Unfortunately, Chile is now experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases due to the Omicron variant including several positive cases among the LCO staff. For this reason, we are reducing the number of crew members on the mountain and returning to operating a single Magellan telescope. The Clay telescope will be closed starting…
Thanks to an amazing robotic innovation, an international collaboration involving the Carnegie Institution for Science has developed the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a research project that has been investigating the structure and evolution of our cosmic home, the Milky Way. A new focal plane system (FPS) called SDSS-V replaces a practical and time-consuming approach…
After several years of excellent work at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), six of our collaborators retired under a special voluntary retirement plan promoted by the Carnegie Institution for Science. To bid them farewell, on December 27, 2021, a tribute ceremony was held at the LCO offices in La Serena. The ceremony was semi-presential. In addition…
Between December 23 and January 6, the Araucaria tree located in the offices of the Las Campanas Observatory in La Serena, IV region of Chile, will be illuminated, simulating a Christmas tree as it has been traditionally done. In La Serena it is said that many children even believed that the “Viejito Pascuero” (Little Old…
Astronomer of the Universidad de Chile leads a research that presents an object selection strategy for the APOGEE-2 project, a high-resolution, near-infrared, multi-point spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way using data obtained with the du Pont telescope of the Las Campanas Observatory. Also participating in the study were Carnegie Institution for Science researchers Rachael Beaton,…
The Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) of the Carnegie Institution for Science Observatories – a world-class astronomical institution – has an opening for an engineering specialist to work on the du Pont 2.5 m and the Swope 1 m telescopes. The successful candidate will work with an international team supporting the telescope/instrument operations and astronomical programs.…
The Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) of the Carnegie Institution for Science Observatories – a world-class astronomical institution – is seeking an engineer/scientist to work in the role of instrumentation and operations support at the twin 6.5m Magellan telescopes. LCO operates the telescopes on behalf of a consortium of universities, as well as a suite of…
The Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) of the Carnegie Institution for Science Observatories – a world-class astronomical institution – has an opening for a telescope and instrument operator (TIO) position to work on the du Pont 2.5 m telescope. In the next year, as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the telescope operations will…
