If you have not seen the southern skies at night, you do not know how amazing the heavens above are. The clear and crisp skies of the Andes have no competitors and it is possible to observe the most beautiful astronomic features.

Even Though stars are seen from any place on earth the sky could look different and may surprise you when you see it from a new location.

The Andes cover a great extension on earth, both on the Northern and the southern hemispheres, and offer in the south some of the best places for amateur and professional astronomers to do observation, astrophotography, and even research.

Altitude above the sea level, dry atmosphere, high rate of clear nights/year, and little light pollution, are only some of the reasons in favour of choosing a site in The Andes to place a Telescope, or a pair of binoculars and enjoy the magnificent southern sky.

The desert of Atacama in Chile offers an environment where almost never rains; working there is the observatory of La Silla at 2,400m (7,872ft) above sea level provided with a set of 15 telescopes and instruments including a 46 inch smith telescope and a 15 meter radio telescope, where serious research is done. "Cerro Paranal" where it is installed the VLT (Very large telescope); the biggest and most modern telescope in the world. It is actuallycomposed by three telescopes with lenses up to 8,2m (26.9ft) diameter and 22 tons weight.