{"id":13756,"date":"2025-03-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=13756"},"modified":"2025-03-07T02:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T02:43:38","slug":"coastal-observatories-astronomy-site-selection-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/coastal-observatories-astronomy-site-selection-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are All the Coastal Observatories?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why are there no astrophysics observatories at the beach?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pA_z92a6rRQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">While islands and beaches offer low light pollution and clear skies, they are unsuitable for professional astrophysics observatories due to high humidity, thick atmosphere, and atmospheric distortion. These factors degrade the quality of astronomical observations, making high-altitude, arid locations like the Atacama Desert in Chile a better choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While islands and beaches offer low light pollution and clear skies, they are unsuitable for professional astrophysics observatories&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5546\/11719829513_a3ced93362_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5740,5743,5742,5757,633,5736,5734,5749,5735,984,5748,5739,5737,5746,5750,1590,5751,5747,5754,5741,5752,5756,5738,5753,5755,5758,5745,5744,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-13756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-math-and-the-sciences","8":"tag-adaptive-optics","9":"tag-astronomical-data-quality","10":"tag-astronomical-seeing-conditions","11":"tag-astronomy-and-atmospheric-clarity","12":"tag-astrophysics","13":"tag-atacama-desert-telescopes","14":"tag-atmospheric-distortion","15":"tag-atmospheric-turbulence","16":"tag-coastal-observatories","17":"tag-dr-becky","18":"tag-dry-climate-observatories","19":"tag-high-altitude-observatories","20":"tag-humidity-effects-on-telescopes","21":"tag-infrared-astronomy","22":"tag-island-telescopes","23":"tag-light-pollution","24":"tag-marine-boundary-layer","25":"tag-mauna-kea-observatory","26":"tag-observatory-elevation","27":"tag-observatory-locations","28":"tag-ocean-proximity-and-telescopes","29":"tag-optical-astronomy","30":"tag-professional-astronomy","31":"tag-scientific-telescope-placement","32":"tag-stargazing-conditions","33":"tag-telescope-imaging-quality","34":"tag-telescope-site-selection","35":"tag-water-vapor-and-astronomy","36":"tag-youtube","37":"post_format-post-format-video","38":"cs-entry","39":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13757,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions\/13757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}