Visitors enjoy outreach programme at ESO’s first observatory
Sunday, August 26 2018, the Observatories on the Haldde Mountain was inaugurated as an EPS Historic Site, the first in Norway, at nearly 70° north.
The UFFO (Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory) Pathfinder for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and the TUS (Transient Ultraviolet Setup) telescope for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, were launched onboard the Lomonosov satellite at 11:00 a.m., April 28, 2016, by the Soyuz-2.1a rocket, which first launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.