Cielos Chilenos is represented by me, Dámaso García, under the auspices of Inmobiliaria e Inversiones Santa Carolina Ltda., A company with which I work on my personal investments and in the advisory and intermediation of financial instruments, mainly in Euro América Corredores de Bolsa.
Then I managed to have a telescope with a motor in 1993, which already made it more comfortable to look at, because it somewhat counteracted the permanent movement of the Earth. In 2005 it was stolen from me, which forced me to modernize by bringing by hand from the USA, a motorized and programmable telescope (Go To), which allowed me to know a much higher observation in relation to what I knew, because just press a button to reach places where it was previously very difficult if not almost impossible in polluted skies, as well as slow and uncomfortable to locate and keep focused the less bright stars.
The Chilean Skies project is aimed at turning Chile into a country that projects to the world and to our children, the wonders of the Cosmos by installing astronomical observatories in schools, hotels, vineyards, parks and public places, to spread the information in a very simple and understandable way. spectacular images that we can capture through the fabulous telescopes that currently exist, developing in this way, a stronger and more directed interest in order to make the transparent Chilean skies known to the world and to our people.
My passion for astronomy was born at the age of 12 with my first telescope with which I could only see the craters on the Moon. At 19 years after a course in Achaya and having known Saturn, I decided to always have a telescope, initially to manually show this impressive planet, the Moon, Jupiter and some cluster, basically to friends and sometimes as a business nocturnal; then to my children, friends and their children.