Scope: SO Technology

  • Project
    ELF - Exo Life Finder
    The detection of extrasolar life is one of the most important scientific discoveries of the next decades. The ExoLife Finder (ELF) design is a highly flexible...
  • News
    EMIR and MEGARA, two instruments giving excellent results on GRANTECAN
    The two spectrographs on the Gran Telescopio Canarias have reached their full operating level and have become two of the most requested instruments for...
  • News
    ESPRESSO has its first light on the four telescopes of the VLT at the same time
    This instrument, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has collaborated, has used, for the first time, the combined light of the four...
  • Talk
    Estrellas Guía Laser en la Australian National University: óptica adaptativa para grandes telescopios y tecnologías I+D
    El Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC), que forma parte de la Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics de la Universidad Nacional de...
  • Project
    First science with adaptive optics at GTC with GRANCAIN, the provisional IR camera for the GTCAO system.
    GTCAO is the single-conjugate aAdaptive Optics system being developed for the GTC. In its first light it will consist of a natural star system (NGS), which will...
  • News
    Four years with SONG
    The IAC is organizing a conference in Tenerife about the first four years of Science with the Hertzsprung SONG telescope, the first in an international network...
  • Project
    FRIDA - inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics
    FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics) is an integral field spectrograph in the near infrared, also with image mode, which will be installed...
  • News
    HARMONI pases its design revisión and will be the spectrograph on the future ELT
    The IAC is a member of the consortium of this instrument, which has passed its critical tests, and incorporates a powerfuls system of adaptive optics which will...
  • Talk
    Hunting exoplanets with the ESPRESSO spectrograph
    The search for extrasolar planets is one of the fastest-growing fields of astronomy. This rapid growth was both made possible by the development of...