Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
CTIO operates the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope on Cerro Tololo, which features the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a high-performance, wide-field CCD imager built to carry out the Dark Energy Survey (DES) (a US Department of Energy Office of Science-led project). It also operates the 4.
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- Category: astronomical observatory
- Website: https://noirlab.edu/public/programs/ctio/
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- Email: info@noirlab.edu (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
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- Recorded profile date: 2026-04-22
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CTIO operates the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope on Cerro Tololo, which features the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a high-performance, wide-field CCD imager built to carry out the Dark Energy Survey (DES) (a US Department of Energy Office of Science-led project). It also operates the 4.
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