Welcome to the TRAPPIST website!
TRAPPIST
(TRAnsiting Planets and
PlanetesImals
Small Telescope) is a project driven
by the Astrophysics and Image Processing group (AIP) at the
Department of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography (AGO) of the University of Liège (Belgium), in close
collaboration with the Observatory of Geneva
(Switzerland). Mostly funded by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS)
with the participation of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), TRAPPIST is devoted to the detection and characterization of planets
located outside our solar system
(exoplanets)
and to the study of comets and other small bodies in our solar system.
It consists of a 60cm robotic telescope located at the ESO
La Silla Observatory in
Chile.
You will find on this site information about
TRAPPIST. Please take the time to explore it and check regularly for updates.
If you have any question please feel free to contact us at the email address below.
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