Cerro Armazones
| Cerro Armazones | ||
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 Cerro Armazones by night |
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| height | 3046 m | |
| location | Región de Antofagasta , Chile | |
| Mountains | Sierra Vicuña Mackenna , Andes | |
| Coordinates | 24 ° 35 ′ 24 ″ S , 70 ° 11 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Armazones is a 3,046 meter high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert . Among other things, the hexapod telescope is mounted on the mountain .
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) with a main mirror 39.3 meters in diameter - consisting of 798 hexagonal mirror elements - is also to be installed there.
The mountain is particularly suitable for astronomy because it has 350 clear nights a year.
The Cerro Paranal with the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory is within sight, about 20 km as the crow flies .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.eso.org/public/germany/teles-instr/elt/?lang
- ↑ E-ELT Site Chosen , ESO . April 26, 2010.
Web links
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