Re: [APML] OT: AutoStitch Panorama, La Silla's Airdrome

[Ray Butler <ray.butler@nuigalway.ie>]

Hi Carlos,

I observed at ESO La Silla (3.6m telescope) in March 2001...it really is 
a world-class site for seeing and dark skies, although some of our 
nights were surprisingly cloudy and humid. We flew non-stop from Shannon 
to Santiago, chilled out at the ESO guesthouse for a couple of nights, 
then flew to La Serena, and finally got the big ESO jeep up into the 
mountains. I don't remember seeing an airdrome at La Silla...maybe we 
didn't pass it on the way. It was my first view of southern hemisphere 
skies, and they were awesome before the waning moon rose. But as my time 
was occupied with setting up and running our TRIFFID-2 camera on the 
3.6m, I took no night-sky photos - I just did some sweeping around with 
binoculars. I'd love to return to Chile sometime.

Ray "who remembers that run as one which was rather troubled by weather 
and instrument problems" Butler


Carlos Milovic F. wrote:

> Hi all!
>  
> This is quite off topic, but I guess that someone may like to see this 
> panorama view of the southern horizont. This was a little start party 
> we had last year. My equipment is at the left, in front of the red 
> table. In the back are Pedro Aguirre and Ricardo Garcia... maybe you 
> saw pics from any of them in the past.
> As far as I can remember, we stayed there nearly a week, and this was 
> in one of our last days, a pair of hours before sunset.
> This site is the darkest and with better seeing I have been. Really a 
> must if you come to Chile.
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> Regards,
>
> Carlos Milovic F.
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Dr. Ray Butler
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National University of Ireland - Galway, 
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