Slooh.com Chile Observatory

The Slooh.com Chile Observatory is a remote-access astronomical facility near Santiago, Chile, built to extend online sky-watching into the southern hemisphere.

About the Slooh Chile Observatory

The observatory is hosted at the Santa Martina Observatory of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) in La Dehesa, and is operated in partnership with the university's Instituto de Astrofísica. Its main instrument is a 20-inch mirror telescope, among the larger telescopes Slooh uses, and together with the network's Canary Islands site it provides round-the-clock sky coverage across both hemispheres. The site carries the official observatory code W88, assigned in 2014.

History

The observatory was founded on February 14, 2009, adding a southern-hemisphere vantage point to Slooh's online observing network.

Location & getting there

It sits in La Dehesa, Santiago Province, Chile, in the foothills outside the capital - a setting chosen for its dark, high-altitude southern skies rather than for public access.

Visiting the Slooh Chile Observatory

As a remote-observing facility rather than a visitor attraction, check the official Slooh and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile websites before planning any visit.

See your named star from here

Because its telescope can be aimed at precise sky coordinates, the exact position of a star named through Star Register can be located from this southern-hemisphere site. Look up a named star's coordinates in the star catalogue.