Optical Seeing at Sierra Negra

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2003-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304229v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the July 2003 issue of the PASP

Scientific paper

10.1086/376396

Optical seeing measurements carried out at Sierra Negra, the site of the Large Millimeter Telescope, are reported. The site, one of the highest peaks of Central Mexico, offers good coverage of Northern and Southern hemispheres and we have undertaken several campaigns to investigate the astronomical potential of the site in the optical. Here we report on our campaign aimed at establishing the seeing quality of the site. We present data of the first three campaigns of optical seeing monitoring covering from February 2000 to May 2002, carried out with a Differential Image Motion Monitor. The results clearly indicate a sub-arcsec seeing, better statistics during the dry season and no dependence with the time of night. We find no dependence of our results with the integration time used.

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