At 10 pm the roof of the observatory rolls back with a low mechanical sigh, and suddenly there is nothing between you and the Milky Way.
The clearest sky on earth
The Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. No moisture means no haze; no towns means no light. Through the telescope, Saturn’s rings look like a pencil drawing, and the nebulae glow faintly green.
Our resident astronomer has been doing this for twenty years and still gasps, every night, when the dome opens.