SPECULOOS-South at 2,635 m (8,650 ft).

Research observatory · Cerro Paranal, Antofagasta Region, Chile

SPECULOOS-South

SPECULOOS-South is a research observatory in Cerro Paranal, Antofagasta Region, Chile.

SPECULOOS-South in brief

Open to the public
No regular public access
Elevation
2,635 m (8,650 ft)
Bortle class
Not yet rated
Part of
Paranal Observatory
Operated by
ESO

Official site

Can you visit SPECULOOS-South? No regular public access

Research telescope; ESO Paranal free public tours, book online via ESO visitors page.

For telescope views near SPECULOOS-South, see the observatories open to the public and astronomy clubs nearby; clubs hold free public star parties.

Telescopes at SPECULOOS-South

4 x 1m RCT.

twin at Teide Observatory, Tenerife

Paranal Observatory: 8 observatories on one site

How dark the sky is at SPECULOOS-South

SPECULOOS-South has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

1 mag 8.0 21.99+ 2 mag 7.5 21.89+ 3 mag 7.0 21.69+ 4 mag 6.5 20.49+ 5 mag 6.0 19.50+ 6 mag 5.5 18.94+ 7 mag 5.0 18.38+ 8 mag 4.5 18.00+ 9 mag 4.0
The Bortle scale. Each panel shows the class number, the faintest star the naked eye reaches at the zenith, and the darkest-edge sky brightness reading of that class in mag/arcsec².

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Research telescopes are often sited on mountains above the haze, so the real sky can be darker than the map suggests.

SPECULOOS-South among the observatories of Chile

Alto Loa National Reserve Bosque Fray Jorge National Park Gabriela Mistral Dark Sky Sanctuary Mano del Desierto Río Hurtado Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory Extremely Large Telescope Llano de Chajnantor Observatory SOAR Telescope (Southern Astrophysical Research) Giant Magellan Telescope CTAO South (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory South) MASCARA-South BlackGEM Array MPG/ESO 2.2m Telescope Rapid Eye Mount Telescope Swiss Euler Telescope TAROT-South TRAPPIST Telescope VISTA Survey Telescope VLT Survey Telescope Next-Generation Transit Survey UCN 84 Telescope IRIS Telescope Victor M. Blanco 4m Telescope SARA South Telescope CHASE Telescope PROMPT Telescope GONG Telescope Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment NANTEN2 Observatory University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory Huan Tran Telescope (HTT) All Sky Automated Survey HAT-South BiSON Deep Sky Chile Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope Simons Observatory ExTrA Danish 1.54m Telescope VLT Auxiliary Telescopes Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope KMTNet-CTIO HATPI CLASS Telescopes Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ESO 3.6m Telescope Gemini South Observatory La Silla Observatory Las Campanas Observatory New Technology Telescope Paranal Observatory Very Large Telescope Vera C. Rubin Observatory SMARTS Telescopes Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Du Pont Telescope Swope Telescope Warsaw Telescope Magellan Telescopes SPECULOOS-South Cerro Paranal, Antofagasta Region, Chile SPECULOOS-South Cerro Paranal, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Dark sky place Research or private observatory Observatory open to the public

Green dots are observatories open to the public, blue dots research or private sites, squares dark sky places; select one for its page. See Observatories in Chile for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Paranal Observatory (Wikipedia; complex): 24.627°S, 70.404°W.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Open the larger map · Directions. Mountain observatory roads are often gated after dark; go only on a scheduled public night.

Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near SPECULOOS-South

Nearest dark sky places

PlaceWhereBortleDistance
Mano del DesiertoAntofagasta, Chile158 km (36 mi)

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

  • Very Large TelescopeCerro Paranal, Antofagasta Region, Chile, 0 km (0 mi). Seen on ESO Paranal Saturday visits
  • Paranal ObservatoryCerro Paranal, Antofagasta Region, Chile, 0 km (0 mi). Free guided visits Saturdays 10 am and 2 pm; register ahead; night visits program

SPECULOOS-South record

Every value in the observatories dataset for SPECULOOS-South
ID663
NameSPECULOOS-South
CityCerro Paranal
StateAntofagasta Region
CountryChile
ContinentSouth America
Webhttps://www.speculoos.uliege.be/cms/c_4259452/en/speculoos
Publicn
Telescope4 x 1m RCT
ComplexParanal Observatory
ParentESO
Elevation2635
Notestwin at Teide Observatory, Tenerife
Lat-24.6272
Lon-70.40420
LatLonSpotParanal Observatory (Wikipedia; complex)
StatusActive
StatusNoteFour 1m robotic telescopes (Liege/Cambridge)
PublicNoteResearch telescope; ESO Paranal free public tours, book online via ESO visitors page
Sourceshttps://kiwix.lema.org/wikipedia_en_all_mini_2024-02/A/Paranal_Observatory; https://eso.org/public/about-eso/visitors

From the site's observatories dataset (observatoriesglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.