{"id":17179,"date":"2019-05-18T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oewf.org\/?p=17179"},"modified":"2019-06-28T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:58:23","slug":"meeteso-chile-eclipse-and-many-big-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oewf.org\/en\/2019\/05\/meeteso-chile-eclipse-and-many-big-telescopes\/","title":{"rendered":"#MeetESO \u2013 Chile, Eclipse and many big telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In 6 weeks, I will board a plane which brings me to Chile to start the #MeetESO Social Media gathering<\/strong>. While writing this blog post I have a flashback to 2014, when I went to a trip to Baikonur (see blog series<\/a>). This was the first time I was in Russia & Kazakhstan and most of the people on the trip I saw for the first time.  It was one of the best trips in my life, as I\u2019ve never seen a rocket launch before.

For the #MeetESO trip it feels similar. Since I was a teenager and had my own telescope, I was gazing at the night sky. My favorite object was Saturn. I still can feel how amazing it was to see Saturn rings through a simple telescope with my own eyes. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ESO<\/strong>
European Southern Observatories is an intergovernmental astronomy organization in Europe, who provides astronomy research facilities \u2013 or amateurish spoken \u201ctelescopes\u201d \u2013 to astronomers. ESO\u2019s headquarter is in Garching near Munich in Germany. In Chile the observatories are operated at 3 different sites in the Chilean Andes. www.eso.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Astronomy was first passion, which also triggered my interest in spaceflight & human exploration. Therefore, I was always a dream to see the big ESO telescope myself. And in 6 weeks my dream will come true, well to be precise more than a dream, because during the trip a total solar eclipse<\/strong> will happen over La Silla,<\/strong> one of the ESO sites. This is truly a once in a lifetime event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before leaving to Chile, I would like to invite you our readers &\nfollowers to let me know if you have any specific questions which I should\nanswer during the trip. Let me know if you have suggestions who to talk to or\nwhich instrument, I should talk about. See my contact details at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week we got the trip itinerary, so the whole \u201cthing\u201d gets more real. I was even already pondering, which warm clothes I need to bring and if I should bring all my camera lenses \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total we are 9 #MeetESO participants<\/strong>, so there will be plenty of updates in different languages. So, stay tuned and follow us to not miss a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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