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New instance, new #introduction !

Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

A drone photograph of a gigantic telescope in the desert, at sunset. The telescope dome is under construction, and partially covered in cladding. The sliding doors of the dome are open, revelaning the telescope inside: a cylindrical structure of white criss-crossed beams. The dome is surrounded by huge cranes, and the entire scene is bathed in the golden light of the setting Sun in the background.

Mr Ɲicolas MOUART

@silentexception@mastodon.social · 4 days ago

"Rubin is unlike any telescope ever built. Its exceptionally wide field of view, extreme speed, and massive digital camera will soon begin the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) across the entire southern sky."
https://spectrum.ieee.org/vera-rubin-observatory-first-images

#Chile #astronomy

For the next decade, the 350-tonne Simonyi Survey Telescope inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will change astronomy through the widest, fastest, and deepest survey of the sky ever performed. Enrico Sacchetti

Sharlatan

@sharlatan@mastodon.social · last week

Astro update 2025/06 is about to land in Guix's repository on CodeBerg as pull request for the first time tomorrow

I found some Golang CLI tool working with the Tycho-2 star catalogue, it is for the first time packaging something astro related written in that language, if anyone knows a nice Golang astro software, please share

https://codeberg.org/astronexus/uraniborg

#Guix
#Golang
#astronomy #starcatalog

Sharlatan

@sharlatan@mastodon.social · last week

The web render of markdown looks nice

Pull, check, provide feedback

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/706

#Guix
#stellarium #indi #uraniborg
#astronomy
#python #golang