OCM – Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory

April 16, 2025

A podcast about OCM (Polish lang.)

In a podcast “Atlas Świata” Dr. Piotr Wielgórski answers Ana Matusevic’s questions about our observatory. Can you answer them, too?

Outreach

March 18, 2025

Observational Practice

A unique opportunity to polish your observing skills in the best location in the world!

Outreach

December 28, 2024

OCM in a video feature about Polish people in South America

Many thanks, Irmina Somers and the Dzień Dobry TVN team for a visit and a cool 8-minute video feature of OCM (video in Polish lang.)

Outreach

December 2, 2024

A machine learning method for predicting telescope cycle time

Artificial intelligence is predicting duration of observations at OCM, helping with scheduling and optimization.

Science

October 11, 2024

Surface brightness-color technique applied to nearby RR Lyrae stars

Near-infrared data from OCM combined with high-resolution spectroscopic data and Gaia parallaxes lead to the determination of projection factors and mean radii for nine Galactic RR Lyrae stars.

Science

October 3, 2024

We caught a comet!

Well, not literally, but in a photo

Daily life

September 17, 2024

Projection factor and radii of nearby BL Her stars

Type II Cepheids might be an attractive alternative to classical Cepheids regarding the projection factor (p-factor), which is a crucial parameter in the Baade-Wesselink technique to determine the distance.

Science

June 5, 2024

Was it a bird? Was it a plane? No!

No! It was… Falcon 9

Daily life

October 27, 2023

Listen to the radio… about OCA

Only this week we had two talks in Polish radios about the OCA inauguration that’s happening at the end of November.

Outreach