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Science Users Information  >  Observing Facilities  >  Paranal Facilities  >  Paranal ASM Website  >  Astro Climatology  >  Dimm Seeing
  26 Apr 2025
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Annual Dimm Seeing Statistics

The Seeing statistics by year from 2016 to 2024 can be accessed via the links below.

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Probability of seeing as a function of wind direction

Observed seeing data as a funtion of the wind direction (data from April 2016 to December 2024).

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