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Headquarters ESO Headquarters, located in Garching, near Munich (Germany), is the scientific, technical and administrative centre of the organisation. |
ESO Headquarters Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 85748 Garching bei München Germany |
+49 89 32006 0 | +49 89 32006664 | 48° 15' 36.90" N 11° 40' 15.16" E |
Travel info | Phone book | information@eso.org |
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Santiago Office The ESO offices in Chile are located in the Vitacura district in Santiago, hosting astronomers, technicians and administrative staff. |
ESO Vitacura Alonso de Córdova 3107 Vitacura, Casilla 19001 Santiago de Chile Chile |
+56 2 2463 3000 | +56 2 2463 3101 | 33° 23' 57.79" S 70° 36' 0.49" W |
Travel info | Phone book | contacto@eso.org |
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Guesthouse The ESO Guesthouse is the official lodge for visiting astronomers and ESO staff travelling between Europe and ESO sites. |
ESO Guesthouse Rey Gustavo Adolfo N° 4634 Las Condes - Santiago Chile |
+56 2 2208 4254 / 2207 9785 / 2206 5353 / 2207 3251 | +56 2 2228 9333 | 33° 25' 12.29" S 70° 34' 38.26" W |
Travel info | guesthou@eso.org | |
| La Silla Observatory ESO’s La Silla Observatory, 600 km north of Santiago de Chile, is a frontline astronomical facility with medium-sized and small optical telescopes, including the most successful exoplanet hunter, HARPS. |
ESO La Silla Observatory IV Región Chile |
+56 2 2464 4100 | +56 2 2464 4101 | 29° 15' 40.2" S, 70° 43' 52.8" W |
Travel info | Phone book | lasilla@eso.org | |
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La Serena Office The ESO Office in La Serena is an administrative point that supports the operation of the La Silla Observatory and serves as connection between La Silla and the rest of the ESO sites in Chile. |
ESO La Serena Office |
+56 51 2272 601 | +56 51 215 175 | Travel info | |||
| Paranal Observatory Paranal Observatory, 130 km south of Antofagasta in Chile, is the flagship facility of ESO equipped with an array of four 8.2-metre telescopes, four auxiliary telescopes for interferometry and a survey telescope. |
ESO Paranal Observatory II Región Chile |
+56 55 2435 100 | +56 55 2435 101 | 24° 40' S, 70° 25' W |
Travel info | Phone book | paranal@eso.org | |
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ESO Antofagasta Office The ESO Office in Antofagasta is an administrative point that supports the operation of Paranal Observatory and serves as a connection between Paranal and the rest of the ESO sites in Chile. |
ESO Antofagasta Office Avenida Balmaceda 2536, Office 504 Edificio "Don Guillermo" Antofagasta Chile |
+56 55 2260 032 | +56 55 2260 081 | 23° 38' 44.85" S 70° 24' 0.76" W |
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ALMA Santiago Central Offices (SCO) | ALMA Santiago Central Offices Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura Casilla 763 0355 Santiago Chile |
+56 2 2467 6100 To call ALMA from ESO, dial "75" followed by the extension number; to call ESO from ALMA, dial "06" followed by the extension number. |
+56 2 2467 6101 | 33° 24' 1.94" S 70° 35' 58.39" W |
Travel info | recepstg@alma.cl | |
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ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) The ALMA Operations Support Facility, at an altitude of 2900 metres in the Chilean Andes, will serve as the focal point for the ALMA operations. Antennas are assembled here before being moved to the Array Operations Site at 5000 metres altitude. |
ALMA Operations Support Facility Kilómetro 121 Carretera CH 23 San Pedro de Atacama Chile |
+56 2 2467 6416 | 23° 4' 23.11" S 67° 58' 51.43" W |
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ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS) The ALMA Array Operations Site, at an altitude of 5000 metres in the Chilean Andes, houses the ALMA antennas and the correlator, the fastest data processing system ever used at an astronomical site. |
ALMA Array Operations Site II Región Chile |
23° 1' 23.5" S, 67° 45' 16.7" W | Travel info | Phone book | |||
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ELT Armazones The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is part of the Paranal Observatory and is located on Cerro Armazones, only 20 km from Paranal. |
ELT Armazones Cerro Armazones Near Paranal Observatory II Region Chile |
24° 36' S, 70° 11' 30" W |
Travel info | contacto@eso.org | |||
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Storage Hall in Hochbrück | Storage Hall in Hochbrück Dieselstrasse 20 85748 Garching Hochbrück Germany |
+49 89 3218 6642 | 48°15'14.04"N 11°37'25.96"E |
Previous sites
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ALMA Project EU FEIC |
ALMA Project EU FEIC Building R25, 2 - 38 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot , Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK |
+44 0 123 544 5000 | +44 0 123 544 5808 | 51° 34' 22.5" N, 1° 18' 33.3" W | Travel info | |
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ALMA El Golf The ALMA El Golf office, located in the Las Condes district in Santiago of Chile, was an administrative point that supported the construction of ALMA. |
Av. El Golf 40, Piso 18 Las Condes - Santiago Chile |
+56 2 467 6100 (obsolete) | +56 2 467 6195 (obsolete) | Phone book | ||
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ALMA Alsacia The ALMA Alsacia office, located in the Las Condes district in Santiago of Chile, was an administrative point that supported the construction of ALMA in coordination with ALMA El Golf. |
Av. Apoquindo N° 3846, Piso 19 Las Condes - Santiago Chile |
+56 2 463 6107 (obsolete) | +56 2 463 6104 (obsolete) | Phone book | ||
| Provisional ESO Offices in Garching bei München The temporary offices that were used before the inauguration of the current Headquarters building in 1981 |
Schleiβheimer Straβe 17 D-8046 Garching bei München Germany |
+49 (089) 3204 04145 (obsolete) | |||||
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CERN CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research located in Geneva, Switzerland, hosted the ESO Telescope Project Division (TP) from the mid-1970 until 1980 when it moved to Garching near Munich in Germany. |
Geneva, Switzerland | +41 (022) 836111 (obsolete) | ||||
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Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory ESO was founded in 1962 at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory in Germany. |
Iduna-Haus, then Alte Holstenstraβe 1 and Gojenbergsweg 112 |
+49 (040) 721 3001 (obsolete) | 53.48° N, 10.24 E |