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2. Llano de Chajnantor Observatory - Wikipedia

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   Llano de Chajnantor Observatory is the name for a group of astronomical observatories located at an altitude of over 4,800 m (15,700 ft) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The site is in the Antofagasta Region approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of the town of San Pedro de Atacama .

3. List of radio telescopes - Wikipedia

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   Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile 30–240 GHz [59] Array of telescopes located on Cerro Toco and designed to measure the polarization of the CMB. NANTEN2 Observatory (NANTEN2) Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile 4 m telescope located at Pampa La Bola. Northeastern Space Radio Observatory: Eusébio, Brazil

4. Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Wikipedia

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   The array has been constructed on the 5,000 m (16,000 ft) elevation Chajnantor plateau – near the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment. This location was chosen for its high elevation and low humidity , factors which are crucial to reduce noise and decrease signal attenuation due to Earth's atmosphere. [ 1 ]

5. List of highest astronomical observatories - Wikipedia

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   These include the Chacaltaya Astrophysical Observatory in Bolivia, which at 5,230 m (17,160 ft) was the world's highest permanent astronomical observatory [9] from the time of its construction during the 1940s until surpassed in 2009 by the new University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, [10] an optical-infrared telescope on a remote 5,640 m ...

6. European Southern Observatory - Wikipedia

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   The Llano de Chajnantor is a 5,100-metre-high (16,700 ft) plateau in the Atacama Desert, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of San Pedro de Atacama. The site is 750 metres (2,460 ft) higher than the Mauna Kea Observatory and 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) higher than the Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal.

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8. Large Latin American Millimeter Array - Wikipedia

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   The observatory acronym comes from the Quechuan word llama that designates the South American camelid that lives in the region where the telescope is being installed. There is some confusion with the word array , since LLAMA will consist of a single dish antenna, but the instrument will have VLBI technology and can therefore be part of an ...

9. Atacama Pathfinder Experiment - Wikipedia

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   The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) is a radio telescope 5,064 meters above sea level, at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, 50 km east of San Pedro de Atacama built and operated by three European research institutes.