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Some Possible VLT Sites in Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. Ardeberg  and
H. Lindgren
A. Ardeberg
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory and Lund Observatory
H. Lindgren
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory and Lund Observatory

Abstract

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A report is given on the site-testing programme for a Very Large Telescope in Chile. Data are now available from seven months of investigations. Comments are made on the places which have so far seemed most attractive. Meteorological data from constant monitoring of a coastal mountain, Paranal, are presented and discussed. These data indicate an average percentage of photometric nights of around 85. Atmospheric integrated water-vapour content seems very low in the winter but relatively high in the summer. Other meteorological parameters seem favourable for astronomical observations.

Type
III. Atmospheric Seeing, Interferometry, Speckle, MMTs and Arrays
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 79: Very Large Telescopes, their Instrumentation and Programs , 1984 , pp. 417 - 428
Copyright
Copyright © ESO 1984

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