Las Campanas Observatory

• The Magellan Telescopes are two identical single-mirror reflecting telescopes. The Walter Baade Telescope saw first light in 2000, and the Landon Clay Telescope in 2002. They are managed by LCO for an international consortium of institutions which includes LCO. Former telescopes • The NANTEN millimeter-wavelength radio telescope was located at LCO from 1995 to 2004. It is now located at the Pampa La Bola site of the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory and is known as the NANTEN2 Observatory. at LCO, with commissioning expected to begin in 2029. It is effective aperture design with seven segments. The telescope will have a light-gathering area of , which is roughly fifteen times greater than one of the Magellan telescopes. The mirrors are being fabricated by the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory, and the first was started in 2005. == Discoveries ==

On February 24, 1987 at LCO, Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde became the first official observers of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A). == Gallery ==

File:Du Pont Las Campanas.jpg|du Pont telescope File:Warszawskie Obserwatorium Południowe.jpg|Warsaw telescope dome and control building File:Warszawskie Obserwatorium Południowe Teleskop.jpg|Warsaw telescope File:Clay telescope.jpg|Clay telescope (one of the Magellan telescopes) File:Magellan telescopes.jpg|Magellan telescopes File:Telescopio Polaco Las Campanas.jpg|Magellan telescopes, Warsaw and Swope telescopes (LTR) File:Teleskopy ASAS OGLE.jpg|ASAS telescopes File:BiSON Las Campanas Station.jpg|BiSON Solar Telescope == See also ==