An alpine hotel for astrophotographers

Two brain researchers run the Alpine Astrovillage hotel in Lü, in the southeast of Switzerland. It is situated in the Müstair valley, a Unesco biosphere reserve close to the Swiss National Park. Amateurs can take amazing pictures of the sky, which is one of the least light-polluted in central Europe. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)

This content was published on August 28, 2010 - 16:53

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