OGLE
The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) project is a long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena. The first phase started in 1991. In the late 1991 the funds for the OGLE microlensing project were granted by the State Committee for Scientific Research to the team of astronomers from the Warsaw University Observatory. A 1.3m dedicated telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, started operating in the second phase of the project in 1996. Starting June 11, 2001, the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment entered its third phase, OGLE III, and resumed regular observations at the Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. Observations are collected with the new "second generation" CCD mosaic camera, commisioned in May 2001. The 8kMOSAIC camera consists of eight thin SITe 2048x4096 CCD chips (8192x8192 pixels of 0.26 arcsec/pixel) giving the total field of view equal to 35' x 35'. The OGLE project has also produced a huge catalog of variable stars, and light curves in general.
The OGLE Web Site provides access to the OGLE data through a web form as well as a ftp interface.
We currently only have variable star catalogs from OGLE.
Last Updated at: 2007-09-29 01:48 PM.