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Fumesucker

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4. ALMA is not an optical telescope, it's millimeter and submillimeter radio

Reply to lastlib (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 03:00 AM

Nov 2015

The reason it has to be at high altitude is because those frequencies are absorbed by the water vapor in our atmosphere, it's in the Atacama desert because that's driest place on the planet.

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Can't it take a photo? Would love to see that. Great photos of observatories and scopes! Thanks! nt Mnemosyne Nov 2015 #1

Through earth's atmosphere, it would be almost worthless. lastlib Nov 2015 #2

ALMA is not an optical telescope, it's millimeter and submillimeter radio Fumesucker Nov 2015 #4

But I can hope. Thanks last Lib! nt Mnemosyne Nov 2015 #6

Kind of sorta Fumesucker Nov 2015 #3

Thank you, Fumesucker. It's just so exciting! nt Mnemosyne Nov 2015 #5