As we celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, we have been working on four different projects with the goal of making astronomy more accessible to people...
Astronomical Site Characterization at the Canarian Observatories
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma) and Teide Observatory (Tenerife) are prime astronomical sites, as confirmed by more than 30 years of intensive...
Astronomical site evaluation in the visible and radio range : IAU technical workshop : proceedings of a workshop held at Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco, 13-17 November 2000
Astronomical Spectrograph Calibration at the Exo-Earth Detection Limit
Following the development of the laser frequency comb which led to the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, we began investigating the possibility of using this novel...
Astronomical Telescopes at the Turn of the Century
The final years of the XXth Century and the initial years of the XXIst Century are witnessing a revolution in the construction of large telescopes. This has...
Astronomy and astrophysics communication in the UCM Observatory
We present a summary of the last activities of science communication that have taken place in the Observatorio de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM...
Astronomy and its application to the study of the religion of ancient Iberians
This paper reviews some of the main results of archaeoastronomical fieldworks carried out in sanctuaries and temples belonging to the Iron Age Iberian culture...