Master 2 Astrophysics and Cosmos, Fields and Particles students at the Haute-Provence Observatory

Students from the Montpellier and Lyon Masters 2 "Astrophysics" and "Cosmos, Fields and Particles" programs visited the Haute-Provence Observatory this year from September 22 to 26, 2025.

This year, 21 students used 3 OHP telescopes and LabEx OCEVU's IRiS telescope to carry out 7 projects (transiting an exoplanet, characterizing the orbits of binary stars, studying a spiral galaxy, etc.). During their stay, the students also had the opportunity to visit the 193 cm telescope and ELODIE spectrograph with which Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star 30 years ago, in 1995.