Locating Europe's 42 m Telescope

Question: Where are the night skies always dark, cloud-free 360 days a year, bone-dry, and orbiting 3.5 km above sea level?

Answer: Armazones Mountain, Atacama desert, Chile.

Question: Who wants to go live there?

Answer: The European Extremely-Large Telescope (E-ELT)!

"We are talking about the biggest telescope in the world, the biggest for a long time to come. That means we have to choose the best spot. Chile has a superb location. It's the best in the world, there's no doubt," the European Southern Observatory's astronomer, Massimo Tarenghi, told AFP. He is one of four astronomers – two Chileans, an Italian (Tarenghi) and a German – who were in the desert this week to evaluate its suitability compared to the main other contender: the Spanish isle of La Palma in the Canary Islands off western Africa.…

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