Lines of instrumentation: Telescopes

Telescopes

As the main objective of the Division is the development of astrophysical instrumentation, frequently it is required its participation in studies and proposals for the construction of future telescopes. Since the design and construction of the IAC-80 telescope, the Instrumentation Division has contributed to several large telescopes projects

  • Gallery
    Inauguration of the ARTEMIS telescope
    Images of 20 June at the IAC headquarters and at the Teide Observatory, during the inauguration of the ARTEMIS telescope.
  • News
    La ministra de Ciencia anuncia en el Consejo Rector del IAC que el Gobierno de España ofrece hasta 400 millones de euros para construir en La Palma el TMT
    La ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Diana Morant, ha anunciado que el Gobierno de España está dispuesto a ofrecer hasta 400 millones de euros, a...
  • News
    La Palma hosts the meeting of the Board of the CTA Observato
    The Board of Directors of the CTA Observatory (CTAO gGmbH), the company which directws the construction and the working of the future Cherenkov Telescope Arraty...
  • Technical facility
    Laboratory of Integrated Circuits (LABIC)
    As part of the IAC's strategic plan, since 2019, the Electronic Department of the Instrumentation Division has been carrying out many activities to obtain the...
  • News
    Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
    Two astronomy networks are coming together to form the OPTICON-RadioNet PILOT ( ORP), the Europe’s largest ground-based astronomy collaborative network that it...
  • Publication
    Liverpool telescope 2: a new robotic facility for rapid transient follow-up
    The Liverpool Telescope is one of the world's premier facilities for time domain astronomy. The time domain landscape is set to radically change in the coming...
  • News
    LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the most distant quasar at very high energies
    The first Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía...