Meteo Information

Satellites

GOES8 channel 4, 10.7 micron, updated every 3h. The image on the right is a zoom of that shown below.  The dots mark the latitude/longitude with a 2 degrees spacing.  From ESO's Satellite IR image
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GOES EAST Images, CTIO Animation
More Satellite Pictures:	Weather Channel - Wetter Online

• Las Campanas: Environmental information
  • LCO overview
  • La Campanas Weather station. Look in the menu for the seeing monitor.
  • CASCA, all sky camera.
• Cerro Pachon
  • Gemini main weather page
  • Soar overview
• Cerro Tololo
  • MeteoMonitor-like
  • Seeing
• La Silla
  • Main MeteoMonitor
  • 2.2m MeteoMonitor
  • LaSCam

FORECAST

ESO

• Forecast(0-30h) for La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor.
• Long range outlook (2-8 days) for La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor.
• Weather watch: summary
• Pressure, Temperature and Wind Forecasts: Numeric values and evolution plots
• Precipitable Water Vapour and Cirrus Cloud Cover: Launch the         Java forecast applet          (from ESO weather forecast's Water Vapor and Cirrus Page).

Others

• CalSky. Log in as lasilla, with the standard optimistic password.

PAST INFO

• ESO Ambiant Conditions Database: This graphic interface lets you query the weather database for La Silla and Paranal since Aug.1998
• LOSSAM: Line of Sight Sky Absorption Monitor, i.e. "was the night photometric". Updated daily.
  • La Silla LOSSAM for last night,
  • Paranal LOSSAM for last night,
  • LSO and PO LOSSAM Archive.
• SCIDAR: Scintillometer experiment at La Silla.

Ephemerides

• The Daily Almanac (by Brian Casey , using Skycalc by by John Thorstensen) gives all the info for a given night.
• For specific objects: Object Seasonal Observability, and the Hourly Airmass Table (by Brian Casey, using Skycalc by by John Thorstensen)
• Airmass plots for your objects
• More tools and links at ESO's User Support Services and Tools page

Updates:  2012-05-25: orh fixed and updated links 2002-09-15: orh fixed and updated links 2001-07-17: fixed and changed links 1999-09-96: added many links to ESO meteo 1999-06-21: replaced broken links 1998-04-00: Creation Comments to jmiranda@eso.org

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