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Chen, an astronomer at Peking University in Beijing, notes ... LAMOST 'is not very successful,' he adds ... its performance doesn't match that of the 2.5-meter Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.
They note that LAMOST has fallen short of its primary goal: observing faint galaxies beyond the Milky Way. [Xiangqun] Cui says the issue is not with the telescope, but with increasing dust and humidity at the site, which now gets only 120 clear nights a year, down from more than 200 when LAMOST was being planned.
