La Luna in La Serena
April 12th 2006 We travelled up to coastal La Serena from Santiago and managed to check out the Mamalluca Observatorio with a late night tour. I saw Saturn with its rings and Jupiter with its moons, plus tons of constellations which are not observable in the Northern Hemisphere. I also learnt that OrionĀ“s left shoulder is the dying red star Betelguese. Chile is particularly good for observing stars and in this a
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