Category: Astronomical viewpoints

Description

The sky of La Palma owes its exceptional astronomical quality to the fact that it is close to the Equator and far from tropical storms, between the meridians 17o 43’ 42’’’ and 18o 00’ 15’’ W longitude and the parallels 28o 25’ 74’’’ and 28o 51’ 15’’’, which favour the visibility of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere and part of the Southern Hemisphere. Being above the thermal inversion of trade winds, the phenomenon known as "sea of clouds", between 1,200 and 1,600 m. of altitude, the atmosphere is clean and lacks turbulence, with a low frequency of high clouds because the "sea of clouds" acts as a filter that prevents the passage of atmospheric pollution. Adverse weather conditions such as the entry of oceanic storms and the invasion of Saharan dust have such a low frequency that they do not significantly affect the final computation of suitable nights for observation.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 https://www.opendatalapalma.es/datasets/e4b990b9271f4158a3270777089d08e9_0.geojson?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A3857%2C%22wkid%22%3A102100%7D
0 https://www.opendatalapalma.es/datasets/e4b990b9271f4158a3270777089d08e9_0.csv?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A3857%2C%22wkid%22%3A102100%7D
0 https://services.arcgis.com/hkQNLKNeDVYBjvFE/arcgis/rest/services/Miradores_astronomicos/FeatureServer/0
0 https://www.opendatalapalma.es/datasets/e4b990b9271f4158a3270777089d08e9_0.zip?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A3857%2C%22wkid%22%3A102100%7D
0 https://www.opendatalapalma.es/datasets/e4b990b9271f4158a3270777089d08e9_0.kml?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A3857%2C%22wkid%22%3A102100%7D
0 https://www.opendatalapalma.es/datasets/e4b990b9271f4158a3270777089d08e9_0

Tags

  • turismo
  • canarias
  • miradores
  • estrellas
  • astronomia
  • astronomicos
  • la-palma

Topics

  • ECON

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