STELLA is a robotic observatory with two fully automatic telescopes (STELLA-I and STELLA-II) located at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain. Not only the...

The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory consists of a 1m aperture Gregory telescope, a UV filter imager, an imaging vector polarimeter, an image...

The third science flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory SUNRISE carries three entirely new post-focus science instruments with spectropolarimetric...

Context. The response of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to incident γ-ray-initiated showers in the atmosphere changes as the telescopes age due to...

Using high-precision photometry, NASA's TESS space mission has discovered many intriguing transiting planet candidates. These discoveries require ground-based...

We report on the implemented design of a two-colour instrument based on electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) detectors. This instrument is currently installed at...

The SuperWASP cameras are wide-field imaging systems at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and at the...

This paper describes the wave-front correction system developed for the Sunrise balloon telescope, and it provides information about its in-flight performance...

Current-day multi-object spectroscopic surveys are often limited in their ability to observe bright stars due to their low surface densities, resulting in...