News

2021

• NOIRLab Transition and SOAR Interfaces
• SOAR participates in study of sextuple eclipsing binary

2020

• SOAR Telescope resumes science operations
• SOAR Telescope suspends science operations (revised and updated)
• Call for Proposals 2020B - SOAR Opportunities

2019

• Warning on macOS Upgrade to Catalina
• Call for Proposals 2020A - SOAR Opportunities
• Automated Observing Network Inaugurated at SOAR Telescope
• Start of SOAR-AEON observations for the 2019B semester
• SOAR 2019B Observing Opportunities
• The VISCACHA survey: deep and spatially resolved photometry of Magellanic Cloud star clusters with SAM
• January 19 Earthquake (updated)

2018

• SOAR Aluminizing Shutdown - Final Update
• TESS Follow-Up at SOAR
• Goodman Radial Velocity Measurements - Update
• SOAR Projects Status
• Solar System Occultations at SOAR
• Release of the Goodman Spectrograph Data Reduction Pipeline
• SOAR 2018B Proposals
• Deep SAM AO Imaging of a distant young cluster
• SOAR 2018 Summer Interns

2017

• SAM Fabry-Perot Call for Proposals
• SOAR tracks spectroscopic evolution of historic LIGO discovery
• Desierto Florido on the Road to Pachón
• Punching Above Its Weight, a Brown Dwarf Launches a Parsec-Scale Jet
• In Memoriam - Daniel Maturana
• SIFS SV Call for Proposals; Goodman Updates; SOAR 2020 Workshop
• Announcements: SAM F-P & Workshop on SOAR Science 2020

2016

• Daniel Maturana retires
• Goodman Spectrograph Updates (Oct 21, 2016)
• Additional Information for 2017A Proposers
• Early-Science call for observing time with SAM-FP
• Resolved time-series photometry of Globular Clusters with SAM
• Time Change in Chile
• Instrumentation Update for Proposers

2015

• New slit-viewing acquisition camera for the Goodman spectrograph
• SOAR Hiring Data Assistant
• Spring Snow Storm of Oct 14, 2015
• Earthquake Impact at SOAR - updated
• SOAR Instrumentation News
• 2015 SOAR Board Meeting
• SOAR Winter Storm
• First SOAR MOS observations find old Galactic globular cluster with no signatures of multiple stellar populations
• SOAR observations key to identifying the densest galaxies known
• SOAR held its Review Commitee 2015
• First Snow of 2015 at Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachon
• The SOAR Adaptive Optics Module (SAM) takes a sharp look at HH-46/47

2014

• Gravitational Arcs in the Galaxy Cluster Abel 370
• Cosmic Skidmark

2013

2012

2011

• SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM) Closes the Loop
• Beginning of Summer Time in Chile
• SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM) UV LASER Launch
• SAM Commissioning
• SIFS First Light

2005

• Loop Closed With Real DM, CCD-39 and Software In the Lab!