Deep Sky Chile.

Research observatory · Rio Hurtado, Chile

Deep Sky Chile

Deep Sky Chile is a research observatory in Rio Hurtado, Chile.

Deep Sky Chile in brief

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Remote hosting service; no public visits.

For telescope views near Deep Sky Chile, see the observatories open to the public and astronomy clubs nearby; clubs hold free public star parties.

What Deep Sky Chile observes

remote hosted telescopes

How dark the sky is at Deep Sky Chile

Deep Sky Chile has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

1 mag 8.0 21.99+ 2 mag 7.5 21.89+ 3 mag 7.0 21.69+ 4 mag 6.5 20.49+ 5 mag 6.0 19.50+ 6 mag 5.5 18.94+ 7 mag 5.0 18.38+ 8 mag 4.5 18.00+ 9 mag 4.0
The Bortle scale. Each panel shows the class number, the faintest star the naked eye reaches at the zenith, and the darkest-edge sky brightness reading of that class in mag/arcsec².

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Research telescopes are often sited on mountains above the haze, so the real sky can be darker than the map suggests.

Deep Sky Chile among the observatories of Chile

Alto Loa National Reserve Bosque Fray Jorge National Park Gabriela Mistral Dark Sky Sanctuary Mano del Desierto Río Hurtado Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory Extremely Large Telescope Llano de Chajnantor Observatory SOAR Telescope (Southern Astrophysical Research) Giant Magellan Telescope CTAO South (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory South) MASCARA-South BlackGEM Array MPG/ESO 2.2m Telescope Rapid Eye Mount Telescope Swiss Euler Telescope TAROT-South TRAPPIST Telescope VISTA Survey Telescope VLT Survey Telescope Next-Generation Transit Survey UCN 84 Telescope IRIS Telescope Victor M. Blanco 4m Telescope SARA South Telescope CHASE Telescope PROMPT Telescope GONG Telescope Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment NANTEN2 Observatory University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory Huan Tran Telescope (HTT) All Sky Automated Survey HAT-South BiSON Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope Simons Observatory ExTrA Danish 1.54m Telescope SPECULOOS-South VLT Auxiliary Telescopes Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope KMTNet-CTIO HATPI CLASS Telescopes Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ESO 3.6m Telescope Gemini South Observatory La Silla Observatory Las Campanas Observatory New Technology Telescope Paranal Observatory Very Large Telescope Vera C. Rubin Observatory SMARTS Telescopes Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Du Pont Telescope Swope Telescope Warsaw Telescope Magellan Telescopes Deep Sky Chile Rio Hurtado, Chile Deep Sky Chile Rio Hurtado, Chile
Dark sky place Research or private observatory Observatory open to the public

Green dots are observatories open to the public, blue dots research or private sites, squares dark sky places; select one for its page. See Observatories in Chile for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Deep Sky Chile, Rio Hurtado (MPC code X07): 30.526°S, 70.854°W.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Open the larger map · Directions. Mountain observatory roads are often gated after dark; go only on a scheduled public night.

Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Deep Sky Chile

Nearest dark sky places

PlaceWhereBortleDistance
Río HurtadoPichasca, Chile220 km (13 mi)
Gabriela Mistral Dark Sky SanctuaryVicuna, Chile240 km (25 mi)
Bosque Fray Jorge National ParkOvalle, Chile281 km (50 mi)

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

  • Vera C. Rubin ObservatoryVicuna, Coquimbo Region, Chile, 33 km (20 mi). Public visits to Cerro Pachon by reservation through NOIRLab; spaces fill quickly
  • Gemini South ObservatoryCerro Pachon, Coquimbo Region, Chile, 34 km (21 mi). Occasional organized visits via NOIRLab; no regular public night program
  • SMARTS TelescopesVicuna, Coquimbo Region, Chile, 40 km (25 mi). Free Saturday daytime tours of Cerro Tololo by reservation through NOIRLab/CTIO
  • Cerro Tololo Inter-American ObservatoryCerro Tololo, Coquimbo Region, Chile, 40 km (25 mi). Occasional public visits via NOIRLab programs; check site
  • ESO 3.6m TelescopeLa Silla, Coquimbo Region, Chile, 141 km (88 mi). Part of ESO La Silla public visits (Saturdays; book ahead)
  • New Technology TelescopeLa Silla, Coquimbo Region, Chile, 141 km (88 mi). Part of ESO La Silla public visits

Deep Sky Chile record

Every value in the observatories dataset for Deep Sky Chile
ID478
NameDeep Sky Chile
StateRio Hurtado
CountryChile
ContinentSouth America
Webhttps://www.deepskychile.com
Notesremote hosted telescopes
Lat-30.5263
Lon-70.85361
LatLonSpotDeep Sky Chile, Rio Hurtado (MPC code X07)
StatusActive
StatusNoteCommercial remote telescope hosting facility
PublicNoteRemote hosting service; no public visits
Sourceshttps://www.deepskychile.com; https://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html

From the site's observatories dataset (observatoriesglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.