Hallo,
in the last days we have travelled from Valparaíso to Santiago de Chile to Rancagua, to La Serena. Near La Serena, which is a bit up north from Santiago there is an area which seems to be the perfect place for an astronomical observatory (as there they have build four observatories here): nearly no rainfall, nearly no clouds (according to the scientists of the observatory 300 days per year a perfect clear sky during the night), and only few people and cities emitting light. We took the oportunity to visist two observatories: one during the night, where we could observe the night sky ourselves through the telescopes (we could see far away star constellation which one cannot see with the eye alone, the moon, Jupiter and Saturn with it´s rings and plantes around... all was PERFECTLY CLEAR and so near.... like viewing a picture! Great!) and one observatory from an american university which has gigantic telescopes.. unfortunately we could not see through these enormous telescopes (which can show stars which are outside of our galaxy!!!!..cool!) ourselves as they are constantly used every night for (real :-) ) scientific research. But it was impressive to see the tools and hear something about their daily work!
That was our highlight of our last days....
Beside that we saw some pinguins, dolphins, sea lions, deserts, mountains, valleys, the sea, a lot of cactuses, cities, autobuses from within, pisco plants (pisco is the national beverage here..it´s alcohol made out of grapes..a bit like Grappa but much sweeter - see link!)...so we are not getting bored :-)
in the last days we have travelled from Valparaíso to Santiago de Chile to Rancagua, to La Serena. Near La Serena, which is a bit up north from Santiago there is an area which seems to be the perfect place for an astronomical observatory (as there they have build four observatories here): nearly no rainfall, nearly no clouds (according to the scientists of the observatory 300 days per year a perfect clear sky during the night), and only few people and cities emitting light. We took the oportunity to visist two observatories: one during the night, where we could observe the night sky ourselves through the telescopes (we could see far away star constellation which one cannot see with the eye alone, the moon, Jupiter and Saturn with it´s rings and plantes around... all was PERFECTLY CLEAR and so near.... like viewing a picture! Great!) and one observatory from an american university which has gigantic telescopes.. unfortunately we could not see through these enormous telescopes (which can show stars which are outside of our galaxy!!!!..cool!) ourselves as they are constantly used every night for (real :-) ) scientific research. But it was impressive to see the tools and hear something about their daily work!
That was our highlight of our last days....
Beside that we saw some pinguins, dolphins, sea lions, deserts, mountains, valleys, the sea, a lot of cactuses, cities, autobuses from within, pisco plants (pisco is the national beverage here..it´s alcohol made out of grapes..a bit like Grappa but much sweeter - see link!)...so we are not getting bored :-)
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Kisses Renate & Mirko
Kisses Renate & Mirko
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