TRAPPIST
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The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) is the corporate name for a pair of Belgian optic robotic telescopes. TRAPPIST–South, which is situated high in the Chilean mountains at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory, came online in 2010, and TRAPPIST–North situated at the Oukaïmeden Observatory in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, came online in 2016.
The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) is the corporate name for a pair of Belgian optic robotic telescopes. TRAPPIST–South, which is situated high in the Chilean mountains at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory, came online in 2010, and TRAPPIST–North situated at the Oukaïmeden Observatory in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, came online in 2016. File:TRAPPIST telescope at La Silla Eso1023e.jpg|The 60 cm telescope is operated from Liège, Belgium, away. File:The TRAPPIST telescope at La Silla.jpg|TRAPPIST's enclosure File:Starry night invites to go out and look to the stars.jpg|TRAPPIST is housed at the former Swiss T70 telescope site File:Comet ISON (C-2012 S1) by TRAPPIST on 2013-11-15.jpg|Comet ISON as captured by TRAPPIST before the comet disintegrated a few days later File:Tarantula Nebula TRAPPIST.jpg|First light image of the Tarantula Nebula taken by TRAPPIST in 2010 File:The TRAPPIST telescope in its dome at La Silla.webm|The TRAPPIST telescope in its dome at ESO's La Silla Observatory
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