ChileScope

WE OFFER HIGH QUALITY REMOTE ASTRONOMY OBSERVING

ChileScope is a project that allows you to travel through distant worlds and to enjoy views of galaxies, constellations and nebulae. 

 
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Our first-priority goal is to provide members of the astronomic community with access to the top-quality equipment under dark sky with sub second seeing in the Southern Hemisphere. Our motto is Astronomy on demand. 

How does it work? Firstly, you log in to the website and create your own observing program with the help of the friendly interface. Secondly, you are enabled to download observing schedules and necessary astronomic data to your hard drive automatically, to pick one from our four telescopes and to choose filters, exposures, a camera and some other options needed. 

Just set up the program you need – the rest is already there. You won’t have to buy expensive pieces of astronomic equipment, waste time travelling to the location, work with hardware and software to program your session.

System malfunctions, bad weather or anything else that can diminish the quality of distant observing? Don’t worry: in such cases we guarantee your money back. 

 
 

We are a group made up with both professional and amateur astronomers with great experience in practical astronomy, which has been our field of activity for more than two decades. Our achievements speak for themselves: astrophoto of deep space objects, numerous APODs, completely automated remote-control observatory the Atacama Desert (Chile), and 97% of non-malfunction work in the complete remote mode for 2 years. Throughout this time we have got deep knowledge of electronics, mechanics and software components of modern astronomic observatory. We are capable of choosing, combining and tuning all necessary elements, and thus of making an observatory work with minimum human intervention. Nowadays we enjoy this experience to develop our dream observatory. 

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Observatory

The observatory consists of 4 domes: three 4-meter domes with 50cm fast Newtonian astrographs, and one 5,5-meter dome with a 1-meter Ritchey Chretien telescope. There are three 6X2,5-meter metal containers on the territory of the observatory.

  • Living quarters container with living air conditioned room and bathroom.

  • Workshop container with tools and equipment for observatory technical services.

  • Electric power container with electric batteries, electrical generator and electrical controllers for solar panels.

  • There is metal fence going by perimeter of observatory with gates and two IP cameras to monitor the territory.

  • Solar panels section containing 70 efficient solar panels

Sub arcsecond seeing, no light pollution, 280-300 clear nights per year.

A taste of what is possible at ChileScope