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There's a nice panorama of the site here:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/B-710,+Antofagasta,+Chile/An...

Looks like it's a couple of hours drive to the nearest city, Antofagasta. That will be a lonely stay for those working there. On the plus side they will probably average 364 nights a year of good viewing weather.

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My astronomy professor talked about that place. Apparently it has nice living facilities and lots of researchers there.

Far from being lonely, he glowingly described it as a place where young, attractive, incredibly intelligent & mostly single grad students get to come together to do astronomy research in between watching re-runs of Contact. This location is like an Olympic Village for astronomers; with this telescope, a mecca.

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