Lines of instrumentation: Telescopes

Telescopes

As the main objective of the Division is the development of astrophysical instrumentation, frequently it is required its participation in studies and proposals for the construction of future telescopes. Since the design and construction of the IAC-80 telescope, the Instrumentation Division has contributed to several large telescopes projects

  • Installation
    New Robotic Telescope
    The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) will be the largest fully robotic telescope in the world. Located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma), it is...
  • Grant
    Nominative grant to the Four Large Size Telescope (LST) of the North CTA in the ORM
    The operation contemplated by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), as an applicant entity, is part of the Spanish participation in the...
  • Document
    NRT Brochure
    New Robotic Telescope Brochure (NRT)
    Folleto NRT
  • News
    Observed: an exoplanet where it rains iron
    Nature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
  • News
    Observed: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another
    An international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
  • News
    OMAIRA GONZÁLEZ MARTÍN: “The Canary Observatories have been essential in the advance of the study of nuclear activity in galaxies”
    For astronomers one of the biggest obstacles is the darkness of the Universe itself, above all the darkness caused by the gas and dust which surround active...