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The Hotel at Paranal is actually quite nice and is carefully designed to minimize light pollution.
I have two friends who worked there, one in hotel management and the other an engineer during the VLT construction.
It is a very inhospitable region and that hotel is an oasis. I have never been to Cerro Paranal but have been in the Atacama and it makes our deserts seem friendly.
Jimmena, who worked in the hotel was visiting there last month and brought me back some pictures inside the domes.
Its great for Australian astronomers to have access these world class telescopes in astronomically superb locations.
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