A Distant View of La Silla

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Mar 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989msngr..55...29k&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 55, p. 29-31

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The domes and related structures on La Silla are prominent features of the Atacama landscape as seen for many kilometres, and would be for many more were it not for the intervening Andean foothills. Under proper conditions, they may be seen (with the unaided eye) for even greater distances. Possibly the most distant normally occupied vantage point (barring a SPOT image) is from the Inter-American Observatory on Gerro Tololo, about 103 km south-southwest of La Silla. For month-Iong periods twice a year (when the sun's declination is about -10°) the domes at ESO are prominent shortly before sunset, as shown in tlle photograph taken in midOctober of 1988. Five structures are prominent with another two visible on the original print. Part of La Silla is hidden behind a foreground mountain, identified in t11e Mapa Fisico de Chile as Gerro EI Pozo (east of Almirante Latorre); its presence accounts for the greater difficulty of locating Gerro Tololo from La Silla, even using binoculars.

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