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Old 11-December-2003, 04:27 AM
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"... the Advance Technology Solar Telescope [proposed sites] were narrowed to three...Haleakala, Maui; Big Bear Lake in California; and La Palma in the Canary Islands near Spain... once the site is selected in late 2004...[will be] the world's largest ground-based solar optical observatory..."
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"... the Advance Technology Solar Telescope [proposed sites] were narrowed to three...Haleakala, Maui; Big Bear Lake in California; and La Palma in the Canary Islands near Spain... once the site is selected in late 2004...[will be] the world's largest ground-based solar optical observatory..."
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I've been to Haleakala and it was midday and very cloudy.....

La Palma would make more sense.
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Big Bear lake is nice. They already have a small solar observatory there, that is, if it survived the fires.
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I'm sure there are sound scientific reasons for the three finalists all being outstanding vacation spots.
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I'm sure there are sound scientific reasons for the three finalists all being outstanding vacation spots.
You're just a cynic. [-(

and you may have a point.....
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...The 10,023-foot Maui summit was chosen out of 72 proposed sites...Construction would begin in fiscal 2009 at the earliest and the 13-foot-diameter telescope would be operating by 2015...
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South Pole Station (or perhaps Dome C) might be a good place for it. Of course you'd want one for the Norther Hemisphere too, but having 24 hour coverage for a good fraction of the year would be handy for some types of observation.
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South Pole Station (or perhaps Dome C) might be a good place for it. Of course you'd want one for the Norther Hemisphere too, but having 24 hour coverage for a good fraction of the year would be handy for some types of observation.
A station above the arctic circle might be a bit of a challenge, what with the caps deteriorating.
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A station above the arctic circle might be a bit of a challenge, what with the caps deteriorating.
I wonder what fraction of the time the skies are clear from the mountains near Cape Bridgman in the North tip of Greenland.
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