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Type II Cepheids might be an attractive alternative to classical Cepheids regarding the projection factor (p-factor), which is a crucial parameter in the Baade-Wesselink technique to determine the distance.
It was… Falcon 9
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).
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.
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.
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!