No Damage to ESO Observatories in Chile

astroron (Ron) · #1 28-02-2010, 11:41 PM

Just in case anyone was wondering there was no damage to ESO scopes in Chile

http://www.eso.org/public/events/ann...010/index.html

Ric · #2 01-03-2010, 12:19 AM

Good news indeed.

I see there was another aftershock earlier this evening at mag 6.1.

Lester · #3 01-03-2010, 06:30 AM

That is good news. I wonder if the polar alognment of those scopes will have to be adjusted slightly. That's if they are EQ mounted.

DavidTrap (David) · #4 01-03-2010, 07:11 AM

I think the AAO at Siding Springs was one of the last major telescopes in the world to be EQ mounted - they are now all Alt-Az. They might need some re-levelling of their baseplate (or a bit of reprogramming of their GOTO and field de-rotater)

Regards
DT

Liz · #5 01-03-2010, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by astroron

Just in case anyone was wondering there was no damage to ESO scopes in Chile

http://www.eso.org/public/events/ann...010/index.html

Good ... I did wonder if they were OK, there are a few big scopes down that way including the SLOOH scope, hope its OK too.