The night lasts for a few months in Antarctica. The weather is dry and cold. The air is quiet and windless. Even the ozone is opening up to let UV photons in - an (un)fortunate example of a bad thing that can be of some good.
 
Antarctica may become the new play ground for astronomers
My Collaborators (with institutional involvement)
Polar Research Institute of China: Huigen Yang, Yuansheng Li
 
Purple Mountain Observatory:  Jun Yan, Longlong Feng, Zhenxi Zhu, Ji Yang
 
Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics Technology: Xiangqun Cui, Xiangyan Yuan
 
National Astronomical Observatory of China: Xu Zhou, Zhaoji Jiang, Jingyao Hu
 
University of New South Wales: John Storey, Michael Ashley, John Lawrence
 
University of Arizona: Chris Walker
 
Other Collaborators
Carl Pennypacker (LBNL) 
Donald York (U. Chicago)
Tony Travouillon (Caltech)
Anna Moore (Caltech)
Roger Malina (Marseille)
Carlin Tao (Marseille)
 
A Movie of data taken by CSTAR, but pointing to the north pole CSTAR Example Data