Observatoire de Genève (in German Observatorium von Genf, in English Observatory of Geneva) is an astronomical observatory at Sauverny in the municipality of Versoix, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It has been active in discovering exoplanets, in stellar photometry, stellar evolution models, and has been involved in the European Space Agency missions: Hipparcos, INTEGRAL, Gaia and Planck.
It operates the 1.2m Leonhard Euler Telescope at La Silla.
In cooperation with University of Liège it supports TRAPPIST, a 0.6 m telescope that aided in showing that Eris may be smaller than Pluto in 2010. The program also observes comets and hunts exoplanets.
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