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...exact site of the new station has not been decided, but it will be somewhere in the Union of South Africa, and the capital of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, is being given serious consideration. Since 1890 the Harvard Observatory has operated a branch station at Arequipa, Peru, for the purpose of studying stars and other celestial objects that never rise above the horizons of Northern countries. However, as cloudy weather handicapped the observation from Peru for a large part of each year, the high plateaus of South Africa were found to be better for continued work the year round...
...more than half the celestial sphere. Perhaps no better combination of two stations is possible than one anywhere in the southern temperate zone, cooperating with one similarly placed in the northern hemisphere. This has ben accomplished approximately for many years by the Harvard Observatery with its auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru."MILKY WAY The cut of the galaxy reproduced above was made from a photograph taken at the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru. It shows the southern Milky Way with the Southern Cross and the Coal Sack in the middle. The Observatory is to be moved in the near future...
...Arequipa, the present observation site, has had a long and varied history. An elevated site about 25 miles east of Lima was temporarily chosen in 1889, principally as a point of observation from which to continue the work in photometry and spectroscopic survey begun in the Northern Hemisphere at the University. But Mount Harvard, as this spot was named, proved almost impossible for observations during the rainy season from October to May; when clouds cover the sky almost continuously. Other points in Peru and Chile were visited, and Arequipa was on the whole found to be the only practical choice...
Pickering Picks Arequipa...
Professor Pickering, Director of the Observatory at that time, finally authorized the recommendation that Arequipa be chosen as the permanent Southern station. For on this site there was not only almost as good a sky as in any part of South America, but excellent living facilities were obtainable for members of the Observatory's staff. In 1890, the main equipment for the station was sent to Arequipa. Throughout the years since then the Peruvian government has in every way possible assisted the efforts of the Observatory...