Astronomical Observatory

zulusys21

· 05 Jun 2021

Astronomical Observatory

#Ciencia The national astronomical observatory Llano del Hato.
It is located in the town of Apartadero state Merida in the Venezuelan Andes,

Located at a height of 3,600 meters at sea level with a climate temperature on the day of 12 degrees and at night 8 degrees.

It is one of the highest observatory in the world. It is managed by the astronomy research center.

The observatory consists of four (4) domes each with a telescope:
* Large refractor telescope
* Reflector telescope
* Panoramic telescope
* Double astrographic telescope.
It has in its facilities a museum, a café, residence for scientists, a sundial.
The tours are guided and in the evenings the show begins they open the roof of one of the domes and you can observe through the telescope the firmament.

More than 300 asteroids have been discovered . You pose the advantage of being able to observe the two hemispheres because they are located near the equator line.

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Milestones

Fascinating .

Incredible

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Eza Chavez

4 years ago

I didn't know him, that hurts it still works?

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ravena69

4 years ago

I visited him. It's spectacular

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neygallardo

4 years ago

it must be amazing to visit it

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naf1971naf

4 years ago

on our visit to Merida did not give us a chance to visit it even though it was on our agenda

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Rudi

4 years ago

That's indeed a very big observatorium. It's a great mystery to look at the stars to see things maybe that aren't there anymore because they ar so far from us and the light has to travel so much distance before it reaches us.