Bibcode
Tapia, M.
Bibliographical reference
San Pedro Mártir: Astronomical Site Evaluation (Eds. Irene Cruz-González, Remy Avila & Mauricio Tapia) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 19, pp. 75-80 (2003) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2003
Citations
18
Refereed citations
11
Description
Statistics are presented covering 20 years of use of the 2.1m telescope
of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at San Pedro
Mártir, Baja California, Mexico. As in the previous compilation,
the fractional number of nights with totally clear, partially clear and
mostly cloudy skies were determined. The fraction of nights lost due to
bad weather was 22.2% in the period July 1982 to December 2002. From
January 1984 to December 2002, 63.1% of the nights were of
``photometric'' quality and 80.8% were of ``spectroscopic'' quality.
During the past seven years of ``drought'' in the area, the fraction of
photometric quality nights increased to 73.5%, but the fraction of
spectroscopic nights remained similar to previous years. The figures are
similar to those reported for the Chilean sites and are better than
those for Northern Hemisphere observatories.