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Night-time measurements of astronomical seeing at Dome A in Antarctica – Nature.com
The night-time seeing (the extent to which a star’s light is blurred by the atmosphere) at Dome A, the highest part on the Antarctic plateau, can be as good as 0.13 arcseconds above a height of only 8 metres.
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