Timeline for Why are all space observatories in Chile?
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| Jun 28, 2017 at 9:45 | comment | added | Beta Decay | While Chilean observatories come up a lot, I think you should be concentrating more on why observatories are found atop mountains. (Mauna Kea, La Palma etc.) | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 4:50 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/879925038421618688 | ||
| Jun 27, 2017 at 18:18 | comment | added | ProfRob | Mauna Kea in Hawai'i is the best site on Earth for optical and infrared observing. | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 17:05 | answer | added | BowlOfRed | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 16:19 | comment | added | Natsfan | And locations south of equator allows us to view the 'southern sky' which we can't view from Hawaii or other northern sites. | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 11:58 | comment | added | Peter Erwin | See also the answer to this question, which includes links to discussions of things like why the inter-tropical convergence zones give you more stable air: astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/10985/… | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 11:51 | comment | added | Peter Erwin | Note that "space observatories" is a little confusing here, since that term is often used specifically for orbiting telescopes (e.g., the Hubble Space Telescope). | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 11:32 | vote | accept | Rico | ||
| Jun 27, 2017 at 11:27 | answer | added | Bart W | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 8:47 | answer | added | Warrick | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Jun 27, 2017 at 7:52 | history | asked | Rico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |