On Wed, 11 May 2005 10:30:30 GMT, "thanatos"
wrote:

Ok
Since I have been involved in site testing for big scopes i can tell you
this the decisions are very political, and not necessarily got anything to do
with seeing

Which sites? I've seen a lot of reports for observatory sites, and every
one included DIMM or similar seeing measurements for at least a year.
Sure, there is a lot of politics in the final decision, but nobody is
going to choose a site for a multimillion dollar facility that doesn't
have good seeing.

And why do you think that seeing isn't important for spectroscopic work?

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