Five nights on a bare mountain - an outsider's look at La Silla.

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Sep 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987msngr..49...39s&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 49, p. 39-41

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The person in front of me is nearly unrecognizable. In the first place, it is very dark around us. Secondly, he is completely wrapped up in a fur jacket, with a cap around his head. The air temperature is just below zero, but that isn't the worst. It's the icy northern wind that blows literally through everything, and that's chilling you to the bone. The person's hands are uncovered, because he has to write, push buttons, turn dials, etc. His fingers must be frozen to death. He has already been working for about six hours, and after a short break for a sandwich and a cup of coffee, he has another six hours to go. This goes on for several nights, all of them cold and windy. No labour union would tolerate such severe working conditions. Nevertheless, this person doesn't complain. He loves his work. He is an astronomer. We are not at the South Pole, but at La Silla, the site of the European Southern Observatory.

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