IACTEC lines: Large telescopes

  • Publication
    The 4 m New Robotic Telescope Project: An Updated Report
    The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is an international collaboration to build and operate a 4m diameter fully robotic telescope. The telescope will take advantage...
  • Publication
    The 4-m New Robotic Telescope (NRT): status of the optomechanical systems
    The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is currently under conceptual phase design, will be sited on the Observatory of Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) in La Palma (Canary...
  • News
    The committee of experts of the US Academy of Science considers that the TMT is a priority, and maintains La Palma as a possible site
    The National Academy of Science of the United States presented, yesterday afternoon, its report Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the...
  • News
    The CSIC and the IAC take part in the creation of the Canary European Solar Telescope Foundation
    9 institutions from 7 European countries today signed the documents for this organization, which will prepare the way towards the future construction of the...
  • News
    The CTA and the IAC celebrate the International Day of Light with an outreach day in Garafía
    A visit to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory with the students of the Santo Domingo secondary school, and a public lecture about the new generation of...
  • Grant
    The four LST (Large Size Telescopes) of the CTA-NORTH in the ORM
    uno en el hemisferio norte y otro en el sur, que cubrirán todo el cielo. Pretende abarcar una sensibilidad y un rango de energías en el espectro...
  • News
    The IAC moves towards becoming a global benchmark in the manufacture of optical elements
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), through its Optics Department and the Center for Advanced Optical Systems (CSOA), is taking a new step towards...
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    The LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the Crab Pulsar at very high-energy
    The first prototype of the Large-Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the LST-1, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...
  • Publication
    The new 4-m robotic telescope
    We present a project to build a 4-m-diameter telescope (New Robotic Telescope [NRT]) with fully robotic operation. The telescope will be sited at the...