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Southern hemisphere astronomy

NOV 01, 1966
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Northern Chile is about to become a new international center for optical astronomy. At present three observatories are under construction at sites within 150 km of the provincial capital of La Serena at about 30 deg south latitude. They include the European Southern Observatory at La Silla, the southern station of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy at Tololo, and the Carnegie Southern Observatory at Morado.

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