Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), established in 1969 and located in Chile's Atacama Desert, is an astronomical observatory managed by the Carnegie Institution for Science. LCO provides a world-class site for astronomical research, operating several telescopes including the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes, the 2.5-meter du Pont telescope, and the 1-meter Swope telescope. It also hosts partner facilities like the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an extremely large telescope currently under construction. LCO supports a wide range of astronomical studies, including galaxy formation and evolution, exoplanets, supernovae, and cosmology, and collaborates with institutions like the University of Arizona, Harvard University, and MIT.
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ESA member states approved collaboration with the Carnegie Institution for Science to host and operate ESA’s FlyEye-2 telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
The ESA Council gave approval for the FlyEye-2 telescope to be installed at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
The July 2022 observation campaign used the Lowell Discovery Telescope, the Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, and the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope.