why are optical telescopes located in uninhabited places on mountain
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Optical telescopes are located in uninhabited places on mountains in order to avoid the distortion of starlight caused due to the atmosphere.
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They also have to be built in remote locations away from transmitters or radio sources so that they can observe celestial radio waves directly. ... For groundbased telescopes, the light from astronomical objects that they receive has to go through all of the atmosphere, which causes attenuation and distortion
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