A. Suárez MascareñoAbout to leave Tenerife to spend almost two weeks at the La Silla ESO observatory, in the Atacama desert (Chile). I will be observing with HARPS for several different projects and then fine tuning the new planet hunter spectrograph NIRPS. I have a long journey ahead! #astronomy #observation #exoplanets
Many times we, #astronomers and #academics, work in airports and during flights... Well, today I'm not really in the mood for that #AstronomerLife #footballmanager
Time to fly to Chile. Time to spend 14 hours like a sardine in a can #astronomy #AstronomerLife
In Chile now! When observing at the ESO observatories is quite usual to spend a day in Santiago de Chile before heading for the Atacama desert. The typical place to spend that day is the ESO guest house #eso #AstronomerLife #astronomy
Time to go to La Silla. New flight (Santiago to La Serena) and then a 2.5 hours on the road... And then I think I'll have to start working immediately. Instrumentation runs demand quite a lot of daily work and observing runs demand mostly nightly work. I'm getting quite a few of both this time! #astronomy #AstronomerLife #NIRPS
The skies were not very clear in La Serena, but we still expect a nice night at the observatory #astronomy #AstronomerLife
While it doesn't look very romantic, this is where the magic happens. This room controls 3 telescopes, including the 3.6m ESO telescope, that hosts HARPS and NIRPS #astronomy #AstronomerLife
Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍Nice @asmasca, long time without being there.
Maybe people think this control room is boring ?
Watch this #TimeLapse #video I took from that same control room. #Astronomers are very busy while observing the #night #sky using #ESO #telescopes - even if we don't see the stars directly.
A night in the control room of ESO La Silla
@AlexSanterne I love it! That's fantastic. I recognize a few people!