Gattini 2010 : cutting edge science at the bottom of the world

• Published in: SPIE Proceedings, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III
• Main Authors: Moore, Anna M., Ahmed, Sara, Ashley, Michael C. B., Barreto, Max K., Cui, Xiangqun, Delacroix, Alex, Feng, Longlong, Gong, Xuefei, Lawrence, Jon S., Luong-Van, Daniel M., Martin, D. Christopher, Riddle, Reed, Rowley, Nicole, Shang, Zhaohui, Storey, John W., Tothill, Nicholas F. H. (R17058), Travouillon, Tony, Wang, Lifan, Yang, Huigen, Yang, Ji, Zhou, Xu, Zhu, Zhenxi
• Other Authors: Stepp, Larry M. (Editor), Gilmozzi, Roberto (Editor), Hall, Helen J. (Editor), Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes (Conference) (Event place)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: U.S., SPIE 2010
• Subjects: 020102 - Astronomical and Space Instrumentation; Antarctic; Plato; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/562692; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858187; http://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Volume/7733

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...