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Astroclimatology of ESO Sites

ESO WIDE REVIEW
M. Sarazin, April 2000, 2/10

 
CLOUDINESS - SHORT TERM

Statistics of photometric nights at Paranal (red, 75%) and La Silla (blue, 76%) since UT1 first light, including downtime for humidity. Data is extracted from the telescope observing logs when available, otherwise from the DIMM photometric database (Feb99-Jun99). The dashed lines give the respective long term (83-now) sites characteristics (Paranal: 78%, LaSilla: 61%).