Observatório de Genebra

Características
Código IAU	517
Operador	Universidade de Genebra
Tipo	observatório astronómico (en)
Construção	1772
Abertura	1967
Altitude	472 m
Localização	Versoix, Genebra Suíça
Coordenadas	46° 18′ 29″ N, 6° 08′ 09″ L
Website	www.unige.ch/sciences/astro

Observatório de Genebra (em francês Observatoire de Genève, em alemão Sternwarte Genf) é um observatório astronômico em Sauverny no município de Versoix, Cantão de Genebra, Suíça. Ele tem participado ativamente em descobrimentos de exoplanetas,^[1] em fotometria estelar, em modelos de evolução estelar, e tem participado em missões da ESA: Hipparcos, INTEGRAL, Gaia e Planck.

Opera o telescópio Leonhard Euler de 1,2 metros em La Silla, e o telescópio Mercator, em colaboração com a Universidade Católica de Lovaina, na Bélgica. Este segundo telescópio, gêmeo do primeiro que encontra-se no Observatório do Roque de los Muchachos, na ilha de La Palma, que faz parte do arquipélago das Ilhas Canárias.

Em cooperação com a Universidade de Lieja suporta TRAPPIST, um telescópio de 0,6 metros que ajudou a demonstrar que Éris pode ser menor do que Plutão, em 2010.^[2] O programa também observa os cometas e caça exoplanetas.^[2]

Referências

↑ «The closest extrasolar planet. A giant planet around the M4 dwarf GL 876» (em inglês). Consultado em 28 de janeiro de 2015
↑ ^a ^b «Former 'tenth planet' may be smaller than Pluto» (em inglês). Kelly Beatty. Consultado em 28 de janeiro de 2015

Ligações externas

Página oficial do Observatório de Genebra (em inglês)

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