What hosting includes, and what it costs
One standard plan covers everything a telescope needs to run remotely from El Sauce: a building, power, internet, telemetry and the people who look after it. Anything larger or more particular is quoted on request.
The standard plan
| Support | All basic maintenance. Technicians and engineers on site around the clock. Help with your installation. |
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| Internet | 2 Gbps symmetric fibre with a Starlink backup. Up to 30 GB a day of upload per telescope, VPN access to the local network, a fixed public IP address if you need one. |
| Building | A shared building with an automatic roof, or a roll-off shed. Swing radius up to 1.5 m; a smaller telescope may qualify for a lower fee. |
| Power | 230 V 50 Hz, 500 W peak and 8.3 kWh a day per telescope, from a 72 kW solar plant with a diesel generator behind it, supervised continuously. |
| Telemetry | A custom weather station, a sky quality meter, a live seeing monitor with sky extinction, all-sky cameras and cameras inside the buildings. |
| Security | Two guards living on site, staff on site, a single road past the guard's house, cameras across the observatory. |
The price
10,500,000 Chilean pesos a year
| Equivalent | about 10,800 USD or 9,600 EUR at today's exchange rate, for reference; you are charged in pesos |
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| Taxes | included |
| Entry fee | none |
| Adjustment | yearly, by Chilean inflation |
| Covers | one telescope in a shared building, swing radius up to 1.5 m, with everything in the plan above |
On request
| Larger telescopes | Swing radius over 1.5 m, or a private building with no size limit, its own power and upload allowance, and a back end set up for you. |
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| Smaller telescopes | A lower fee, quoted on the telescope. |
| Installation | We install your setup, including polar alignment and collimation, and keep at it until you are satisfied. |
| Advanced support | Collimation and optical alignment on demand, debugging, mechanical design and construction, software development, consulting on telescopes and instruments, purchasing. |
Ask us
Tell us what telescope you have and what you want to do with it, and we will work out the rest together.
