Search for Astronomical Sites in Developing Countries and their Preventive Protection

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dc.creatorQuerci, F. R.
dc.creatorQuerci, M.
dc.date2000-01-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T01:51:52Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T01:51:52Z
dc.descriptionThe archives of meteorological satellites permit to find around the world dry sites well adapted to astronomical observations (in the visible, IR, and millimetric ranges), as a pre-selection of sites. The GSM (Grating Scale Monitor) technique permits to qualify some of them as astronomical sites for a future setting-up of astronomical observatories. Such sites are found in new astronomical countries or in Developing Countries. At the same time, their preventive protection from light pollution and/or radio interference has to be viewed. In practice, once the pre-selection is made, the government of these countries ought to be alerted for example by IAU and/or UN Office for Outer Space Affairs. The local site testing through GSM should be carried out in cooperation with astronomers or scientists of these countries under the umbrella of IAU. This should be an approach to help to introduce astronomy and astrophysics in Developing Countries.
dc.descriptionin Proc. IAU Symposium 196 on "Preserving the Astronomical Sky", held in Vienna (Austria), 12-16 July 1999, in conjunction with UNISPACE III, to be published in A.S.P. Conf. Series (eds. R.J. Cohen and W.T. Sullivan)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001411
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001411
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/438
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleSearch for Astronomical Sites in Developing Countries and their Preventive Protection
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