The GLORIA Project enables internauts to opérate a telescope at the Teide Observatory

General view of the TAD. Credit: D. Padrón (IAC).
General view of the TAD. Credit: D. Padrón (IAC).
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The GLORIA project provides public access to the first of its 17 robotic telescopes: The Open Outreach Solar Telescope (with the Spanish acronynm TADS), located at the Teide Observatory and owned by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).

Further information: IAC Spanish press release

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