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Friday, May 23, 2025
Extremely Large Telescope currently being built on top of a mountain in the middle of Chile’s remote Atacama Desert, more than 150–kilometres away from the nearest city.
At 16,400' elevation in dry desert, I think that would feature the clearest air on land. Scheduled to become operational in 2029.
With an open dome, I wonder how long the personal work without supplemental oxygen. I suppose they monitor for hypoxia. Open 24 hours. A tour would be cool.
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ReplyDeleteAt 16,400' elevation in dry desert, I think that would feature the clearest air on land. Scheduled to become operational in 2029.
ReplyDeleteWith an open dome, I wonder how long the personal work without supplemental oxygen.
I suppose they monitor for hypoxia. Open 24 hours. A tour would be cool.
*personnel
ReplyDeleteThe peak is @ 8,888.75 ft. MSL, oxygen not required below 12,000 ft. +/- how healthy you are.
ReplyDeleteMust be a different observatory. There are several, I think seven, in that area.
DeleteI just went and read about it, interesting the telescope is at an elevation of over 3000 meters.
ReplyDeleteExile1981
Dominoes won't guarantee 30-minute delivery.
ReplyDeletedriest place in the world. it has 50 times less rainfall than the next driest desert on earth.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere where the chilean government is building a factory within 50 miles of the place that will interrupt with light pollution
ReplyDeletewhy a telescope on land?
ReplyDeleteI figured the telescopes in space would return far better images?