CTIO

The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is located about 500km north of Santiago, Chile, about 70km east of La Serena, at an altitude of 2200 meters. CTIO operates the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope on Cerro Tololo, and the 4.1-m SOAR Telescope, which is on the adjacent Cerro Pachon, next to the 8.1-m Gemini SouthTelescope. The SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope and SMARTS 0.9-meter Telescope are being operated by the SMARTS Consortium, users from NSF OIR Lab community are entitled to up to 15% of the time on the small telescopes.

Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope [2]

SMARTS Consortium [3] (1.5-m [4], 1.0-m [5], 0.9-m [6] telescopes)

Instruments [7]

Programs Hosted at CTIO and Related items [8]

SOAR 4.1-m Telescope [9]

Gemini South 8.1-m Telescope [10]