TRAPPIST
(Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope)
(a ground-based automated transiting-planet finding telescope)
TRAPPIST
(Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope)
is a pair of Belgian robotic telescopes that
search for and observe extra-solar planet transits,
as well as solar system minor planets.
The original TRAPPIST telescope (TRAPPIST-South),
with a 0.6-meter aperture
has been operating since 2010 at La Silla Observatory (LSO) in Chile,
using the housing of the retired Swiss T70 Telescope.
A second, identical telescope (TRAPPIST-North),
operating since 2016 is at
Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco.
Among their discoveries are exoplanets around the star TRAPPIST-1
including more than one in its habitable zone.
(telescope,reflector,ground,Chile,Morocco,automated)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST
https://www.trappist.uliege.be/
https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/trappist/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011EPJWC..1106002G/abstract
Referenced by pages:
La Silla Observatory (LSO)
TRAPPIST-1
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