OBSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DE LA SILLA - CHILE
La Silla, Astronomic Observatory located between the cities of La Serena and Vallenar.
Sent by my best friend Hernán from Santiago in Chile.
This is from Wikipedia : La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Chile with eighteen telescopes. Nine of these telescopes were built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organisation, and several of the others are partly maintained by ESO. The observatory is one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
La Silla is a 2400 m high mountain, bordering the southern extremity of the Atacama Desert in Chile. It is located about 160 km north of La Serena, 27 km south of Las Campanas Observatory, and 100 km north of Cerro Tololo Observatory.
Originally known as Cinchado, the mountain was renamed La Silla (the saddle) after its shape. It rises quite isolated and remote from any artificial light and dust sources. La Silla was the first observatory in Chile used by ESO.
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