TRAPPIST

TRAPPIST
Location(s)Coquimbo Region, Chile
Coordinates29°15′16″S 70°44′22″W / 29.25453°S 70.73942°W / -29.25453; -70.73942
Altitude2,400 m (7,900 ft)
Telescope styleRobotic optical telescope
Websitewww.trappist.uliege.be
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The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) is the corporate name for a pair of Belgian optic robotic telescopes. TRAPPIST–South, which is situated high in the Chilean mountains at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory, came online in 2010, and TRAPPIST–North situated at the Oukaïmeden Observatory in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, came online in 2016.

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