Seeing on Mt. Graham: Discoveries and Site-to-Site Variations
Abstract
The selection of a night-time observatory site has two aspects, first the selection of the mountain range, and secondly the selection of the optimum sites on that range. Site to site differences on mountains with existing observatories have often been reported by astronomers, but there has usually been uncertainty associated with this because of the potential for facility man-made seeing differences to be significant. The best evidence that site-to-site differences do occur is the well documented presence of azimuthal seeing variations at a given telescope and time e.g. Woolf and Ulich (37.082.066).
- Publication:
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Very Large Telescopes and their Instrumentation, Vol. 2
- Pub Date:
- October 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988ESOC...30..917C