Re: AW: [APML] Tenerife skies (was: Exposure times with IDAS filter)

["Philipp Salzgeber" <philipp@salzgeber.at>]

If Europeans are so nationalistic about their skies - why is the biggest (by far) European Observatory, and at another location the
VLT and soon the Submillimeter Array located in the Atacama desert in Chile in Southern America? Please don´t judge the peoples of a
continent because of some personal experiences with a limited number of individuals.

If dust in the atmosphere is such a problem, astronomical research should have been put to a halt for some time after the Pinatubo
eruption. As far I know photometry has the biggest problem with transparency. Imaging and Spectroscopy are not that strongly
affected.

with best regards

Philipp Salzgeber
[p***ed off European ;-)]



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