The Sky

Girl-child and I went to the Mamalluca Observatory the other night - It was a lot of fun.

Because of the almost continuous clear sky here in the Elqui Valley there are a number of observatories, but this is the only one where tourists can sky-gaze. We heard a lot of mind-bending numbers in the talk which we would never be able to remember, but we also got to see Venus, nebulae, clusters and lots of other starry stuff. They also have a meteorite that was found in the Atacama desert and a book of Copernicus´letters:
This maybe gives you an idea of what the sky is like:
It´s a pity we can´t take pictures of the night sky because it is really quite spectacular.

We did spot a cloud yesterday:

And sometimes there is mist in the mountains in the morning:

But mostly it´s very sunny...