Was it a bird..? Was it a plane..?
It was… Falcon 9 😉
Category: News in the team
Local inauguration of Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory in Chile
April has been an eventful month for the Araucaria Project, because we took part in a series of events leading to the local, Chilean inauguration of the Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory (OCM).
Presentation of the OCM at the Polish Embassy in Santiago de Chile
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.
Presentation of OCM at the space and aviation international fair FIDAE in Chile
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.
The inauguration of Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory
Today we celebrated the inauguration of Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory, OCM in short.
Listen to the radio… about OCA/OCM
Only this week we had two talks in Polish radios about the OCA inauguration that’s happening at the end of November.
The winners of the Polish-French Science Award 2023
Grzegorz Pietrzyński and Pierre Kervella have been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie Polish-French Science Award.
Weronika Narloch and Gergely Hajdu at the AAS Journal Author Series
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.
An asteroid “Kudritzki”
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,...
First light at the Polish Astronomical Observatory in Chile
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