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Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
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| Organization | Multi-national |
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| Location | Atacama desert, Chile |
| Coordinates WGS 84 |
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| Altitude | 5,062 m |
| Weather | 365 clear nights/year |
| Webpage | Llano de Chajnantor observatory |
| Telescopes: | Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) |
Llano de Chajnantor Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at 5104 m altitude in the Chilean Atacama desert, 50 kilometers to the north of San Pedro de Atacama. It is a very dry site - inhospitable to humans - but an excellent site for submillimetre astronomy. Water vapour absorbs and attenuates submillimetre radiation and thus a dry site is required for this type of high-frequency radio astronomy. It hosts some of the largest and most expensive astronomical telescopes in the world, with about 1 billion US dollars already allocated for projects on the site.
- Cosmic Background Imager (CBI)
- Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)
- Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
- ASTE (Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment)
- NANTEN2 Observatory (NANTEN2)
- Llano de Chajnantor discussed on the APEX website
- Llano de Chajnantor Observatory on wikimapia
- Decription of a trip to Llano de Chajnantor Observatory on BBC News
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