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driest air you can find, at an altitude of 5000 m

And dark skies for optical scopes, courtesy of lack of development. Las Companas is the same area for similar reasons. It also lies almost on the same line of longitude as Kitt Peak, Arizona, making very long baseline synthetic aperture measurements a possibility.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:39:26 AM EST
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Not many countries are foolish enough to build the second most populous city in the middle of a desert..

Another benefit of Chili is that there is only the Pacific ocean upwind, so there is very little turbulence in the air above the telescopes.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 02:32:38 AM EST
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