----------------------------------- nobody 26 Iun 2014 21:00 ----------------------------------- De 5000 pe an primesti practic o tzeava infipta in mijlocul desertului si nici aia intr-o zona prea grozava. The seeing is rarely below 1 arc seconds, on average 2 to 3 arc seconds (median is 1.7 arc seconds), but this is the price to pay to have an accessible place, where electricity, water and internet is available. ... Our site is a good compromise between a large number of nights, decent (while not superb like at Paranal and other similar professional observatories) and relatively economic price. We are of course studying solution to get a faster internet, but so far the other solutions have proven to be very expensive (the current one is already very expensive). Some of our clients have their own private link (cost around 400 dollars per month). The situation with the electricity is such that we now recommend people use a notebook computer to control their telescope. A typical setup (PC, mount, focuser, filter wheel, camera, guiding camera) use around 100 watts in normal use. If yours takes 1000 watts, we have to talk about you providing your own electricity. The basic price is now 5000 euros per year if you provide your dome. Shipping an installation to Chile means you have to ship your equipment, pay importation taxes, and this is generally speaking quite expensive. We try to put the installation fees to a minimum, but depending of your setup we fix a value, which is typically around 1000 euros or less to get your telescope up and running (not including the importation taxes that you pay). In fact we suggest you come here when we install the telescope, send the mount and scope through a container, and come with the CCD camera (and PC) in your luggage even though it may be cheaper to purchase a PC directly here in Chile.