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The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy by Varela Perez, Antonia M

“…The starry sky has been a source of inspiration throughout human history. Astronomy has been a common element in all cultures and civilizations, being used to…”
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Atmosphere Extinction at the ORM on La Palma: A 20 yr Statistical Database Gathered at the Carlsberg Meridian Telescope by García-Gil, Alejandro, Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Varela, Antonia M.

“…The Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), in the Canary Islands (Spain), was one of the candidates to host the future European Extremely Large…”
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Canarian Observatories Meteorology; Comparison of OT and ORM using Regional Climate Reanalysis by Hidalgo, Sebastian L., Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Castro-Almazán, Julio A., Varela, Antonia M.

“…The present work has been carried out as a support for site selection for The European Solar Telescope (EST), a 4 m telescope project that will be located in…”
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Thirty Years of Atmospheric Extinction from Telescopes of the North Atlantic Canary Archipelago by Laken, Benjamin A., Parviainen, Hannu, García-Gil, Alejandro, Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Varela, Antonia M., Fernandez-Acosta, Sergio, Pallé, Pere

“…This study examines 30 years of atmospheric extinction, τ, obtained from both stellar and solar telescope measurements, at ~2.4 km MSL, from the North Atlantic…”
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European Extremely Large Telescope Site Characterization I: Overview by Vernin, Jean, Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Sarazin, Marc, Vazquez Ramió, Héctor, Varela, Antonia M., Trinquet, Hervé, Miguel Delgado, José, Jiménez Fuensalida, Jesús, Reyes, Marcos, Benhida, Abdelmajid, Benkhaldoun, Zouhair, García Lambas, Diego, Hach, Youssef, Lazrek, M., Lombardi, Gianluca, Navarrete, Julio, Recabarren, Pablo, Renzi, Victor, Sabil, Mohammed, Vrech, Rubén

“…The site for the future European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is already known to be Armazones, near Paranal (Chile). The selection was based on a variety…”
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European Extremely Large Telescope Site Characterization. II. High Angular Resolution Parameters by Vázquez Ramió, Héctor, Vernin, Jean, Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Sarazin, Marc, Varela, Antonia M., Trinquet, Hervé, Delgado, José Miguel, Fuensalida, Jesús J., Reyes, Marcos, Benhida, Abdelmajid, Benkhaldoun, Zouhair, Lambas, Diego García, Hach, Youssef, Lazrek, M., Lombardi, Gianluca, Navarrete, Julio, Recabarren, Pablo, Renzi, Victor, Sabil, Mohammed, Vrech, Rubén

“…ABSTRACT This is the second article of a series devoted to European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) site characterization. In this article we present the…”
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Canarian Observatories Meteorology; Comparison of OT and ORM using Regional Climate Reanalysis by Hidalgo, Sebastian L., Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Castro-Almazán, Julio A., Varela, Antonia M.

“…The present work has been carried out as a support for site selection for The European Solar Telescope (EST), a 4 m telescope project that will be located in…”
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Homogeneity of image quality at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory by Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Varela, Antonia M, Mahoney, Terry

“…Seeing statistics from several year-long site-testing campaigns carried out at different locations at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) are reviewed…”
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GTC site-testing campaign: meteorology by Mahoney, Terry, Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Varela, Antonia M

“…We present monthly statistics for a two-year meteorological site-testing campaign at the two candidate sites for the location of the GTC. The windroses…”
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European Extremely Large Telescope Site Characterization III: Ground Meteorology by Varela, Antonia M., Vázquez Ramió, Héctor, Vernin, Jean, Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Sarazin, Marc, Trinquet, Hervé, Miguel Delgado, José, Jiménez Fuensalida, Jesús, Reyes, Marcos, Benhida, Abdelmajid, Benkhaldoun, Zouhair, García Lambas, Diego, Hach, Youssef, Lazrek, Mohamed, Lombardi, Gianluca, Navarrete, Julio, Recabarren, Pablo, Renzi, Victor, Sabil, Mohammed, Vrech, Rubén

“…Both meteorology and optical conditions are crucial for selecting the best site to host extremely large telescopes such as the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and…”
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European Extremely Large Telescope Site Characterization II: High angular resolution parameters by Ramió, Héctor Vázquez, Vernin, Jean, Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana, Sarazin, Marc, Varela, Antonia M, Trinquet, Hervé, Delgado, José Miguel, Fuensalida, Jesús J, Reyes, Marcos, Benhida, Abdelmajid, Benkhaldoun, Zouhair, Lambas, Diego García, Hach, Youssef, Lazrek, M, Lombardi, Gianluca, Navarrete, Julio, Recabarren, Pablo, Renzi, Victor, Sabil, Mohammed, Vrech, Rubén

“…This is the second article of a series devoted to European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) site characterization. In this article we present the main…”
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