The Instrumentation Division of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is involved since several years in upgrading its capacities to design and manufacture optical components. To this end, we have created a new laboratory (Centre for Advanced Optical Systems, CSOA) which will be capable to design, fabricate and qualify large optical

The paper presents the method for detecting exoplanets in the image archive obtained by telescopes of the MASTER Global Network since 2002. The unique archive represents homogeneous photometric data obtained over 20 years for the northern (MASTER-Amur, MASTER-Tunka, MASTER-Kislovodsk, M-ASTER-Tavrida, MASTER-IAC, MASTER-OAGH) and 11 years for the

The forthcoming New Robotic Telescope, a collaboration between the UK and Spain, is poised to become the world's largest and fastest autonomous observatory, located in La Palma. It is tailored to be a premier 4m class follow-up facility for the imminent wave of time-domain and transient astrophysics. It exemplifies innovation with its use of

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a 4-m class solar telescope that will include a Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics system (MCAO) integrated in the telescope optical path. Its open-dome configuration implies that the complete telescope will be exposed to wind, having an important impact in image stability and quality. The integration of Active

Detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) and astrometric binaries provide the opportunity for model-independent dynamical mass determination up to very high accuracy. For the stellar modelling and age-dating, freezing the model-independent mass is the most important and critical constraint to limit systematic uncertainties. In addition, stellar radii can

The search for the electromagnetic counterparts to Gravitational Wave (GW) events has been rapidly gathering pace in recent years thanks to the increasing number and capabilities of both gravitational wave detectors and wide field survey telescopes. Difficulties remain, however, in detecting these counterparts due to their inherent scarcity