Lately, at the Observatorio del Pangue...

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First, you arrive at Santiago de Chile... ...then you want to travel North and meet our clear skies ! Photos: (1)Eric Escalera (2)Jea...

Comet Wirtanen fulfills expectations

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The comet 46P/ Wirtanen reached its perigee on December, 16th, approaching Earth at less than 12 million kilometers. Such a circumstance use...

December 2018: the return of the great comets ?...

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It has been a long time since we observed spectacular comets in our skies, however a series of bright comets is announced to visit us, among...

August, the lost month...

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The Universe never takes a break, but astronomers do. So we were closed for the whole month of August: sorry for the many of you who request...

Spying the neighbors

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Yes, we do it sometimes ! Here are the views we got through our 25 inches telescope : actually nothing else than more observatories... All ...

Three Suns, One Year

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Observing a Sun eclipse is quite a task, as it depends on a series of circumstances that one can´t hardly control... We the staff of Observa...

Unidentifyed Flying Object in our sky ?...

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On the evening of February 6th, a round-shaped, fast evolving cloud, suddenly appeared in the Eastern sky, and it lasted for almost 20 minut...

The largest public telescope in the world is not at the Observatorio del Pangue,

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not even in Chile : actually, this is the 100-inch Hooker Telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) in Los Angeles, California. So,...

The Great American Eclipse : we've been there !...

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August 21st, 2017 : a total eclipse of the Sun crossed entirely the USA, from Pacific to Atlantic coasts, a rare circumstance that allowed i...

First shot for a first-class instrument

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Now ready for use, the 50cm PlaneWave telescope recently installed at the observatory seems to be definitely promising : below we present th...

February the 26th : a great Annular Eclipse of the Sun from Patagonia

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The feelings of living a total eclipse of the Sun are undescriptible so we'll not describe the sensations we got when the Sun disappeare...

February the 3rd : a doublet of supernovae in a nicely shaped galaxy

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A bright supernova in a distant galaxy is always quite a spectacle, but when the same galaxy produces a second bright supernova, indeed this...

Nota especial:
Carabineros de Chile: amigos o... enemigos?

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Recientemente los Carabineros de Chile pusieron un parte a nuestro chofer por estar acomodando al grupo de turistas en el vehiculo, frente a...

December the 1st : witnessing an outstanding event in the remote Universe...

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Quasars use to be out of reach of amateur telescopes, however in the last days something exceptional happened in the constellation of Pegasu...

December the 1st : a distant supernova, as a bonus...

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On the same night that we've been granted with the exceptional outburst of a quasar, an extragalactic supernova was also available in a ...

November the 2nd, once again...

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It's a tradition now, we never miss to take a picture of the sunset right behind the dome of the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory ...

October 2016: a bright nova pops up in Sagittarius

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It has been a long time since the last bright nova, but we finally got a good one, this time in the constellation of Sagittarius. In the...