31-03-2025
A Window into the Universe from Baja California. The Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at San Pedro Mártir
In the highlands of Baja California, 180
URLkilometers from the northern border of
Mexico and 2800 meters above mean
sea level is the National Astronomical
Observatory at San Pedro Mártir. The
observatory has 11 telescopes; seven of them are
currently in routine operations and the other four
are in their testing phase. The natural astroclimatic
conditions are amongst the best in the world
(Plauchu-Frayn et al. 2017 and 2020), particularly
the dark sky which, thanks to its remoteness from
large sources of light pollution like cities, makes
the observatory a privileged site for studies that
use the scarce light coming from very distant
astronomical sources and that require the least
possible interference. The prevailing low cloud
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