Saturday, November 26, 2005
A problem I wouldn’t mind
Image by Bryn JonesThe Antarctic in winter would seem to be a good place to watch the stars, the Antarctic plateau is high, and the air is very dry and unpolluted, there is no light pollution and 24hour darkness is a pretty good bonus. Unfortunately, visual wavelength telescopes at the South Pole have to contend with aurora. Yes, that’s right, frequent aurora disrupt visual observing. I feel so sorry for them
(the original article is at Nature, but you need to be a subsrcriber).
(But free at Nature is this amazing story about Volcanoes in Antarctica, with a pretty amazing image)
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 9:54 am 
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