MEarth-South Observatory 0.4-meter Telescope (#8)

The MEarth Project consists of two robotically controlled observatories. The MEarth-North telescope array observes from the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) on Mount Hopkins, Arizona. The MEarth-South telescope array observes from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) on Cerro Tololo, Chile. By having observatories in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, the project covers the entire sky in our search for exoplanets transiting the closest M dwarfs. Both arrays of telescopes are controlled remotely from offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MEarth-South array consists of eight 40-centimeter telescopes, each equipped with a CCD camera sensitive to red optical and near-infrared light.

For scientists: More details can be found on the science page.