The Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP) is situated in southeast France on a plateau at 650m altitude, near the village of St. Michel l'Observatoire, Alpes de Haute-Provence (southern French pre-Alps) at +44° latitude and 5.7° East longitude. Created in 1937 as a national facility for French astronomers, the facilities were made available for foreign visiting astronomers in 1949. It is owned by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and is funded by the CNRS and the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU). OHP is part the Marseille-Provence Astronomical Observatory (OAMP) federation. It provides a variety of optical telescopes, including the 1.93m telescope that features the cross-dispersed échelle spectrograph (Elodie).
