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    IAC develops new technology to measure distortions in astronomical images in real time
    A team from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has tested a new technique capable of rapidly identifying the distortions that light undergoes as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere. The development, carried out by the Laboratorio para la Innovación en Optomecánica (LIOM) within the framework of the CELESTE project, could in the future contribute to the creation of more compact and simpler adaptive optics systems to improve the quality of astronomical observations. The technology combines an optical fibre approximately one centimetre long with artificial intelligence techniques
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  • Javalambre Auxiliary Survey Telescope, at the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory (Teruel, Spain)
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    The ULL and the IAC have created one of the largest photometric catalogues of asteroids observed in Spain
    A team of scientists, including astrophysicist Carlos Hernández Monteagudo from the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), has compiled one of the most comprehensive catalogues of small bodies in the Solar System, based on photometric observations made from Earth. The study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, compiles data on 6,579 asteroids, comets and irregular satellites, mainly from the main belt located between Mars and Jupiter, opening up new possibilities for studying their composition and rotation. The
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