• DOI:10.1086/656329
Corpus ID: 119205634

Atmosphere Extinction at the ORM on La Palma: A 20 yr Statistical Database Gathered at the Carlsberg Meridian Telescope

@article{GarcaGil2010AtmosphereEA,
  title={Atmosphere Extinction at the ORM on La Palma: A 20 yr Statistical Database Gathered at the Carlsberg Meridian Telescope},
  author={A. Garc{\'i}a-Gil and C. Mu{\~n}oz-Tu{\~n}{\'o}n and A. Varela},
  journal={Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific},
  year={2010},
  volume={122},
  pages={1109-1121}
}

• A. García-Gil, C. Muñoz-Tuñón, A. Varela
• Published 2010
• Environmental Science, Physics
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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 Telescope (E-ELT) and is the site of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), the largest optical infrared facility to date. Sky transparency is a key parameter as it defines the quality of the photometry to be acquired in the astronomical observations. We present a study of the atmosphere extinction at the ORM, carried out after analysis of a… Expand