This morning before dawn, Venus “hid” behind the Moon for about an hour as seen from the Canaries. The occultation began, in the islands, at 07:27:23 local time (an hour later in the Peninsula) and not until 08:28:01 did it reappear on to the right of the lunar disc. The Teide Observatory, at Izaña (Tenerife), was a privileged place to enjoy the occultation due to its clear, virtually cloudless sky. A team from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), comprising the astrophysicist and popularizer Alfred Rosenberg and the astronomical photographer Daniél López, went up to the

Professor Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in Physics, visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in La Laguna, and Teide Observatory on Monday at Izaña (Tenerife). During his tour at the IAC headquarters, he was guided by the director of the Institute, Rafael Rebolo, and other researchers, through the Instrumentation area. He was enthusiastic about EMIR, the forthcoming instrument to be installed on Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). Alfred Rosenberg, outreach specialist and astrophysicist at the IAC, and Alfonso Muñoz, director of Instituto de Materiales y Nano-tecnología (ULL)

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