Astronomical Observatories in Spain
TEIDE OBSERVATORY
Placed in the island of Tenerife, in the Canary islands , the Observatorio del Teide (OT) was inaugurated in 1985 and it belongs with the Observatory of the Roque de los Muchachos to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).
An altitude of 2400 meters the Observatorio del Teide devotes itself preferably to the study of the Sol, centering in it the best solar European telescopes.
In the last years it installing robotics telescopes that will be able to be operated entirely by remote control, without need of the physical presence of the astronomer in the observatory.
Telescopio Carlos Sánchez (TCS)
photo: IAC
Property of Instituto de
Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the telescope Carlos Sanchez is used
principally for the observation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic
spectrum in which emit the "cold" objects of the Universe. It is one of the
major telescopes of this type that they exist in the world.
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photo: Hans Schremmer
It has a primary
mirror of 70 cm of diameter and a vertical spectrograph of 15 meters of
length. Also it has a "Solar Correlator" for observations of high spatial
resolution. The VTT is a property of the Institute Kiepenheuer of Friburgo's
Solar Physics (Germany).
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photo: Walter Koprolin
It has been designed and constructed by IAC, has a primary mirror of 0.80 meters. With the IAC-80 there discovered the first brown dwarf baptized as Teide 1. It entered functioning 1991.
photo:
Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
The
GREGOR solar telescope with a mirror of 1.5 meters can realize measurements
of the photosphere and of the solar cromosphere with a resolution of 70 km.
It is a telescope of opened structure with a totally retractable dome. It
belongs to a consortium of German institutions together with other
international associates
photo: David
Fernández-Barba
The Optical Ground Station (OGS), it is a part of a more wide project of the European Space Agency (ESA) that consists of developing systems of optical communication between satellites. The OGS will serve besides the observation of spatial garbage.
photo:Themis
The solar telescope THEMIS of 90 cm of diameter allows to
realize measurements of the intensity and the direction of solar magnetic
field, for it, it is capable of operating simultaneously in diverse bands.
The THEMIS is of French-Italian property.
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photo: IAC
The Solar Laboratory
is a set of two telescopic facilities in which there are located diverse
instruments dedicated to programs of observation of the Solar Physics in the
long term and of the "Helioseismology".
These instruments are:
MARK-I: Solar
Espectrofotometer.
IRIS : Solar Espectrofotometer.
TON
: Solar Fotometer.
LOI
: Solar Fotometer.
GONG :
Interferometer
photo: David Fernández-Barba
Property of Mons's University (Belgium),the telescope have a mirror of 50 cm and with it realize principally photometric observations of variable stars.
photo: John Baruch
The Bradford Robotic Telescope belongs to Bradford's University in the United Kingdom and has been designed to be able to be operarate as a completely robotic system.
photo:
Astrophysical
Institute Potsdam
STELLA (STELLar
Activity) is a project in the long term to observe and to monitor activity
in cold stars with two robotic telescopes. STELLA is an observatory that
shelters two robotic telescopes(STELLA-I and STELLA-II) that are completely
operate of remote form.
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photo: IAC
The VSA (Very Small Array)
is a battery of interferometers to study the cosmic microwave background
radiation in order to advance in the cosmological knowledges.
COSMO10 y COSMO15 Radiotelescopes
photo: IAC
As VSA is dedicated to the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).
photo: IAC
STARE (STellar Astrophysics and Research on
Exoplanets) dedicates to the search of extrasolar giant planets observing it
stellar transit. An important by-product of this search will be a complete
review of variable stars. STARE is a member of
TrES, one net of three telescopes of small
aperture that look for planets in stellar transit.
photo:
Luis Fernando Rodríguez (IAC)
The American entity
"Telescope
Society" by reason of the agreement signed with the IAC is going
to install of a net of optical robotic telescopes in the Islands governed by
remote control, to put the telescopes at the disposal of the public in
general under the payment of a quota.