Astrophysics is a very recent development in Spain, but its spectacular evolution in itself constitutes a singular phenomenon that has aroused the interest of...
Spanish Monitoring of Comets: Making Sense of Amateur Photometric Data
Amateur astronomers have always represented an important observing group in cometary astronomy. Much of our knowledge of cometary light curves has come from...
Spanish participation in the development of HARMONI, the first light integral field spectrograph for the E-ELT.
HARMONI is the visible and near infrared integral field spectrograph (IFS) selected as a first-light instrument for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E...
The Spanish participation as an Associate Member in the Millimeter Array (MMA) project - led by the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) - has been...
SPARC4 A simultaneous polarimeter and rapid camera in 4 bands
We present the basic concept of a new astronomical instrument: SPARC4 - Simultaneous Polarimeter and Rapid Camera in 4 bands. SPARC4 combines in one instrument...