Members of the Araucaria Project were invited to the cocktail party joined with the presentation of the Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Santiago de Chile.
An inner companion has recently been discovered orbiting the prototype of classical Cepheids, δ Cep, whose orbital parameters are now reported.
Araucaria’s flag project – Rofl Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory – was presented at FIDAE (Feria Internacional del Aire y del Espacio) on April 11–14, 2024.
Today we celebrated the inauguration of Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory, OCM in short.
Only this week we had two talks in Polish radios about the OCA inauguration that’s happening at the end of November.
Grzegorz Pietrzyński and Pierre Kervella have been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie Polish-French Science Award.
Our colleagues Weronika Narloch and Gergely Hajdu were invited by Frank Timmes to talk about their recent work as part of the AAS Journal Author Series.
Our long-time Araucarian Rolf Kudritzki has now his own asteroid, 2012 XN58 “Kudritzki”. The new name of the asteroid was announced in the Bulletin of the Working Group of Small Bodies Nomenclature, Volume 3,...
In mid-April of this year, a newly-built 0.8-m telescope saw its first light from the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Three new telescopes were installed in our Observatory Cerro Armazones in Chile. We documented this process with many photos!