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Long Nights, 90 Below. What More Could Astronomers Want?

The New York Times: It’s been called the whitest place on Earth, and at 90 degrees below zero, it could be the coolest place on the planet for astronomy.

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Very exciting story. I hope to be still around when the 4m telescopes is on location.

The story reminds reminds me of a space whodoneit (Asimov?). The culprit was the astronomer "on the back of the moon" on home leave, who was frustrated that "now" all the exciting astronomy was done on the ground. We shall see.

One nagging question: what is "East of the south pole"? One could, of course, agree on some arbitrary direction. Would the opposite direction (12 hrs) then be "West"? And what about 6 hrs and 18 hrs?

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