Gattini 2010: Cutting Edge Science at the Bottom of the World

• Main Authors: Anna M. Moore A, Sara Ahmed B, Michael C. B. Ashley C, Max K. Barreto D, Xiangqun Cui E, Delacroix A, Longlong Feng F, Xuefei Gong E, Jon Lawrence C, Daniel M. Luong-van C, Christopher Martin B, Reed Riddle A, Nicole Rowley I, Zhaohui Shang F, John W. V. Storey C, Nick F, H. Tothill C, Tony Travouillon B, Lifan Wang F, Huigen Yang F, Ji Yang G, Xu Zhou F, Zhengxi Zhu F
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Plato; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.296.9654; http://mcba11.phys.unsw.edu.au/~plato/papers/moo10a.pdf

The high altitude Antarctic sites of Dome A and the South Pole offer intriguing locations for future large scale optical astronomical Observatories. The Gattini project was created to measure the optical sky brightness, large area cloud cover and aurora of the winter-time sky above such high altitud...