WHY: 2015 has been named by the United Nations as the International Year of Light (light2015.org). Light has had many obvious benefits for human mankind, but it also poses some relevant threats: the everyday-increasing excess of light thrown by humans to the sky seriously threatens to remove forever one of humanity’s natural wonders, the view of
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STARS4ALL- A Collective Awareness Platform for Promoting Dark Skies in EuropeMiquelSerra Ricart
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CEI Canarias. Campus Atlántico Tricontinental Canarias 2010-2015
El CEI-CANARIAS Campus Atlántico Tricontinental de las universidades canarias es una apuesta geoestratégica-tricontinental para convertirse en el centro Atlántico referente como catalizador de talento y de proyectos docentes, de investigación, de innovación y transferencia para el eje Europa-África-Latinoamérica. El proyecto se basa en tres áreas
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IACTEC Large Telescopes: The European Solar Telescope - EST
The European Solar Telescope (EST) (http://www.est-east.eu) is a European solar physics initiative involving more than 30 institutions from 18 countries, under the coordination of the IAC, representing the largest infrastructure of European research projected in the field of solar physics from Earth.
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Characterization of the Canary Island Observatories
The IAC has long been aware of the importance of promoting initiatives for the characterization and protection of the Canarian Observatories (Roque de los Muchachos -ORM- on La Palma and Teide -OT- on Tenerife). For this reason, the Sky Quality Team was created and then a technical office for sky protection (OTPC) to ensure that the Law protecting
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PROGRAMA TECNOLÓGICORafaelRebolo López
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Optical Infrared Co-ordination Network for Astronomy - OPTICON
Participation in OPTICON. One of the main goals of this project, to which many of the individual activities being carried out at OPTICON are also contributing, is to produce construction specifications for a European Extremely Large Telescope.