Teide Observatory

The Observatorio del Teide ( Teide Observatory ) is an astronomical observatory on Mount Izaña, at 2400 meters above sea level, on the island of Tenerife, after which it is also called Observatorio de Izaña. It belongs to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC ), and together with the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, the European Northern Observatory.

History

In 1964, the observatory was opened. The first telescope was the Heliógrafo Razdow which is no longer in operation today. Due to the progressive colonization of Tenerife suffered in the course of time the initially excellent conditions for night sky exploration. For this reason, the Teide Observatory has specialized in solar observation, which is operated 24 hours a day in cooperative association with other observatories.

Telescopes

Solar telescopes and solar laboratory

  • Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT ): Mainly used to study the Sun's atmosphere. The diameter of the primary mirror is 70 cm. Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics, Freiburg (1989).
  • THEMIS: A solar telescope, which was built mainly for the study of magnetic fields of the sun. The project is a collaboration between France and Italy.
  • GREGOR: A new solar telescope with 1.5 meter primary mirror. Cooperation of CIS, MPS and AIP (2012 ).
  • ChroTel: The robotic telescope with 10 cm aperture for observation of the entire solar disc, installed at the VTT.

Night telescopes

  • Carlos Sánchez ( TCS): 1.55 meter primary mirror, built in 1972 by the UK, since 1982 IAC, for infrared observations optimized.
  • Mons: 50 cm primary mirror, University of Mons, 1972.
  • IAC- 80: 80 cm primary mirror, IAC, 1991.
  • OGS: Optical Ground Station, 1m primary mirror, ESA, 1998, for visual satellite communication and optical observation of space debris.
  • STARE: 10 cm primary mirror, High Altitude Observatory, 2001, search for extrasolar planets.
  • Bradford robotic telescope.
  • STELLA robotic telescope Double: 2 x 1.2 meter primary mirror, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, 2006.
  • Slooh: robotic telescopes of Slooh USA, 2004.

Anisotropy of the cosmic background radiation

  • VSA (Very Small Array ). Radiointerferomenter
  • COSMOS OMAS, study of cosmological structures, 1998
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