Observatory La Silla receives a new telescope

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The South European Observatory facility called La Silla Observatory in Chile has a new telescope that is now going up and working. This telescope is called a 2-test telescope or TBT2. TBT2 is a 56cm telescope and has a colleague who is identical at the OSA Land Station in Cebreros in Spain. Both telescopes are precursors to the planned “Flyeye” telescope network.

The network is a project developed by the ESA for surveys and tracks things that move fast in the sky. ESA said the future network will be fully robot, and the software will schedule a real-time observation and report other positions and information about observed objects. The TBT project is intended to show that software and hardware as expected.

Astronomers estimate that there are a large number of small objects that have not been found that we don’t realize can do serious damage to the center of the population on earth if they break down. Even the effects of smaller meteorites with soil at high speed can cause significant local damage. After fully operational, the Flyeye telescope network will survey the night sky to track the object that moves quickly and is a significant progress in the European ability to find potentially dangerous objects.

TBT is part of the inter-organization efforts to build a complete picture of the objects near the earth and the risks they pose. The researchers said collaboration between the ongoing organizations between ESO and ESA were significant in the study of the objects of almost the earth. TBT is the first telescope project achieved by the cooperation agreement between the two organizations.

There is no clear indication when the additional unit launch for the Flyeye network will begin. The first installation and lights for TBT2 are achieved using health and safety prevention measures due to pandemic.