The Educational institution is developing a project about the socioeconomic impact of the IAC

Anyone who wants to get to know this Observatory may, as part of a group, take a look at the telescopes with which the stars are observed, can make observations directly, and can learn the basic concepts of astronomy

The 45 prizewinners of the competion "Canarios bajo un mismo cielo" of the project SolarLab visited the Headquarters of the IAC, the Teide Observatory, the Teide National Park, and the Museum of Science and the Cosmos on June 4th and 5th.   More information and images: Image gallery of the project website The winners of the competition “Canarians under the same sky” have been announced Information for educational centres in the Canaries: you may now subscribe for the 2014-2014 compatition. Get going and join in!

Financed by the FECYT and developed by the IAC, CETA-CIEMAT, and Eurocosmos, it will show the general public material previously seen only through telescopes or via space probes. The audiovisual material will be distributed gratis to any planetarium or projection-hall which requests it.

The 45 prizewinners, who come from the 7 islands, will visit the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias next week

Según los últimos datos de los observadores de IMO (International Meteor Organization), el pico de actividad de las Camelopardálidas se produjo a la hora prevista: entre las 6:00h y 8:00h UT del sábado 24 de mayo (ver curva en http://www.imo.net/live/cameleopardalids2014/), aunque con niveles muy bajos. Se cumplieron los pronósticos y, por tanto, prácticamente no se observaron meteoros desde Europa. Los datos confirman que los modelos funcionaron perfectamente en la predicción de la evolución gravitatoria de los enjambres de meteoroides (pronosticaron muy bien la hora del máximo de la lluvia