More about Hans Attersjö

I work as hardware development engineer at ESO, La Silla, Chile developing electronics for telescope control systems but I also work a lot with software development using mostly C and vxWorks which is a realtime operating system. I am a Swedish citizen but I also speak quite good English, acceptable French and Spanish plus some German. Sorry about the quality of the photo but it was the only one I had available in electronic format, so I zoomed it up.

European Southern Observatory, ESO, is an international organization consisting of eight member countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.

It operates the La Silla observatory in the Atacama desert, 600 km north of Santiago de Chile, at 2400 m altitude, where fourteen optical telescopes with diameters up to 3.6 m and a 15-m submillimeter radio telescope (SEST) are now in operation. The 3.5-m New Technology Telescope (NTT) became operational in 1990, and a giant telescope (VLT = Very Large Telescope), consisting of four 8-m telescopes (equivalent aperture = 16 m) is under construction. It will be erected on Paranal, a 2600 m high mountain in northern Chile, approximately 130 km south of the city of Antofagasta.

For more informationon about ESO see: http://www.eso.org

Hobbies:

• Camping, boating and fishing
• Home automation
• Electronics and computing
• Playing some squash

Address and phones:

• If you need this, email to: hattersj@io.com

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