Please find below a list of the most important ESO contact addresses in Germany and Chile. If you are looking for telephone numbers or email addresses of individual ESO staff members please have a look at http://www.eso.org/bin/getphone. General requests about ESO can also be sent via email to ESO's Public Affairs Department.
Important ESO Sites Contact Addresses
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Headquarters ESO Headquarters, located in Garching, near Munich (Germany), is the scientific, technical and administrative centre of the organisation. |
ESO Headquarters Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 85748 Garching bei München Germany |
+49 89 32006 0 | +49 89 3202362 | 48° 15' 36.90" N 11° 40' 15.16" E |
Available | Available |
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Santiago Office The ESO offices in Chile are located in the Vitacura district in Santiago, hosting astronomers, technicians and administrative staff. |
ESO Vitacura Alonso de Córdova 3107 Vitacura, Casilla 19001 Santiago de Chile 19 Chile |
+56 2 463 3100 | +56 2 463 3101 | 33° 23' 57.79" S 70° 36' 0.49" W |
Available | Available |
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Guesthouse The ESO Guesthouse is the official lodge for visiting astronomers and ESO staff travelling between Europe and ESO sites. |
ESO Guesthouse Rey Gustavo Adolfo N° 4634 Las Condes - Santiago Chile |
+56 2 208 4254 / 207 9785 | +56 2 228 9333 | 33° 25' 12.29" S 70° 34' 38.26" W |
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| La Silla Observatory ESO’s La Silla Observatory, 600 km north of Santiago de Chile, is a frontline astronomical facility with medium-sized and small optical telescopes, including the most successful exoplanet hunter, HARPS. |
ESO La Silla Observatory IV Región Chile |
+56 2 464 4100 | +56 2 464 4101 | 29° 15' 40.2" S, 70° 43' 52.8" W |
Available | Available | |
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La Serena Office The ESO Office in La Serena is an administrative point that supports the operation of the La Silla Observatory and serves as connection between La Silla and the rest of the ESO sites in Chile. |
ESO La Serena Office |
+56 51 272 601 | +56 51 215 175 | 29° 55' 16.35" S 71° 12' 42" W | Available | |
| Paranal Observatory Paranal Observatory, 130 km south of Antofagasta in Chile, is the flagship facility of ESO equipped with an array of four 8.2-metre telescopes, four auxiliary telescopes for interferometry and a survey telescope. |
ESO Paranal Observatory II Región Chile |
+56 55 435 100 | +56 55 435 101 | 24° 40' S, 70° 25' W |
Available | Available | |
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ESO Antofagasta Office The ESO Office in Antofagasta is an administrative point that supports the operation of Paranal Observatory and serves as a connection between Paranal and the rest of the ESO sites in Chile. |
ESO Antofagasta Office Avenida Balmaceda 2536, Office 504 Edificio "Don Guillermo" Antofagasta Chile |
+56 55 260 032 | +56 55 260 081 | 23° 38' 44.85" S 70° 24' 0.76" W |
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ALMA Santiago Central Offices (SCO) | ALMA Santiago Central Offices Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura Casilla 763 0355 Santiago Chile |
+56 2 467 6100 | +56 2 467 6101 | 33° 24' 1.94" S 70° 35' 58.39" W |
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ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) The ALMA Operations Support Facility, at an altitude of 2900 metres in the Chilean Andes, will serve as the focal point for the ALMA operations. Antennas are assembled here before being moved to the Array Operations Site at 5000 metres altitude. |
ALMA Operations Support Facility Kilómetro 121 Carretera CH 23 San Pedro de Atacama Chile |
+56 55 448 416 | +56 55 448 481 | 23° 4' 23.11" S 67° 58' 51.43" W |
Available | Available |
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ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS) The ALMA Array Operations Site, at an altitude of 5000 metres in the Chilean Andes, houses the ALMA antennas and the correlator, the fastest data processing system ever used at an astronomical site. |
ALMA Array Operations Site II Región Chile |
23° 1' 23.5" S, 67° 45' 16.7" W | Available | |||
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ALMA Project EU FEIC |
ALMA Project EU FEIC Building R25, 2 - 38 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot , Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK |
+44 0 123 544 5000 | +44 0 123 544 5808 | 51° 34' 22.5" N, 1° 18' 33.3" W | Available | |
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APEX Sequitor Base The APEX Sequitor Base, located nearby San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, is the workplace of the astronomers and support staff running APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment. |
APEX Sequitor Base Ayllo de Sequitor, Parcela 85 San Pedro de Atacama II Region Chile |
+56 55 448 200 / 448 228 | +56 55 448 221 | 22° 54' 31.35" S 68° 11' 58.98" W | Available | Available |
| APEX Chajnantor Site APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, is a 12-metre diameter antenna observing the Universe at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths located at an altitude of 5100 metres, on the Chajnantor plateau, in Chile’s Atacama region. |
APEX Chajnantor Site II Región Chile |
+56 55 448 299 | 23° 0' 21" S, 67° 45' 32" W |
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| Storage Hall in Hochbrück | Storage Hall in Hochbrück Dieselstrasse 20 85748 Garching Hochbrück Germany |
+49 89 3218 6642 | 48°15'14.04"N 11°37'25.96"E |
