The GTC (Gran Telescopio Canarias) Project, a 10 meter segmented telescope to be installed at the ORM in La Palma, Spain, is moving forward at full steam. Main science drivers for the GTC are image quality, operational efficiency and reliability. First light is planned for end-2002.

The purpose of the Gran Telescopio de CANARIAS (GTC) project is the design, construction, erection and startup of a telescope with a segmented primary mirror equivalent to a circular aperture of 10 m in diameter. The GTC project was created to satisfy the needs of Spanish astronomers for more telescope time and larger telescopes. The GTC project

We present a short summary of the activities developed by GUAIX, the UCM Group of Instrument and Extragalactic Astrophysics. At present we are focused in the development of data reduction pipelines for three future instruments for the Spanish 10~m GTC (Gran Telescopio Canarias). The careful treatment of the random error propagation throughout the

High-resolution maps of the spiral galaxies NGC 3992 and NGC 4321, obtained with the Taurus camera at the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope are analyzed. The results obtained include (1) the total number of separately identifiable H II regions in their disks (classified according to their membership of a spiral arm or the interarm disk, (2) the

HARMONI is a visible and near-infrared (0.47 to 2.45 μm) integral field spectrometer, providing the E-ELT's core spectroscopic capability, over a range of resolving powers from R (≡λ/Δλ)~500 to R~20000. The instrument provides simultaneous spectra of ~32000 spaxels at visible and near-IR wavelengths, arranged in a √2:1 aspect ratio contiguous field

We present a description of a new instrument development, HARPS3, planned to be installed on an upgraded and roboticized Isaac Newton Telescope by end-2018. HARPS3 will be a high resolution (R≃115,000) echelle spectrograph with a wavelength range from 380-690 nm. It is being built as part of the Terra Hunting Experiment - a future 10- year radial