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2019
- Warning on macOS Upgrade to Catalina
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- Automated Observing Network Inaugurated at SOAR Telescope
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- SOAR 2019B Observing Opportunities
- The VISCACHA survey: deep and spatially resolved photometry of Magellanic Cloud star clusters with SAM
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2018
- SOAR Aluminizing Shutdown - Final Update
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2017
- SAM using SOI Filter Wheel
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- SOAR tracks spectroscopic evolution of historic LIGO discovery
- Desierto Florido on the Road to Pachón
- Punching Above Its Weight, a Brown Dwarf Launches a Parsec-Scale Jet
- In Memoriam - Daniel Maturana
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