The June 1973 site testing expedition at Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma
Abstract
After site tests in the Mediterranean had not given very promising results the international organization JOSO in 1972 started a series of site tests in the Canary Islands under the direction of Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer. These included aircraft campaigns for measuring air temperature fluctuations at various altitudes, which were supported from the ground. The second JOSO expedition to the Roque de los Muchachos, the highest peak of the island of La Palma - the first expedition during which a large telescope was used to take solar photographs from the ground - was carried out from 13 June until 3 July 1973. Participants were the author and Hartmut S. Schneider, both from the University Observatory Göttingen. This paper reports about our expedition and about some of the more personal impressions gained by the author during the course of this event.
- Publication:
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Acta Historica Astronomiae
- Pub Date:
- 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005AcHA...25..251W