Talk type: Telescopes and instrumentation

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    S4G: The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies
    Galaxies are the basic building blocks of the Universe, and understanding their formation and evolution is crucial to many areas of current astrophysical...
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    Small telescopes and large telescopes
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    Software de Control de HORuS.
    HORUS (High ResolUtion Spectrograph) es un espectrógrafo de alta resolución, instrumento visitante en GTC y disponible para la comunicad científica desde...
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    SONG: an observational new facility at Observatorio del Teide for stellar observations
    The SONG SONG (Stellar Observations Network Group) project is a worldwide initiative to design and build a global network of 1m telescopes (6 to 8 nodes) to...
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    Spectroscopic Madness - The ProAm WR 140 campaign in 2009/10
    Golden Age of Astronomy” does not only influence professional but also amateur astronomy. Today, amateurs basically use the same technologies as the...
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    SPICA - a space infrared telescope for cosmology and astrophysics
    In this talk we will review the SPICA mission and present its current status under the new framework. Optimized for mid- and far-infrared astronomy with a...
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    Spitzer Space Telescope studies of primitive solar system objects
    The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on Spitzer has observed more than 120 asteroids, several Centaurs and Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), and satellites of the giant...
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    Starshot; the first interstellar probe
    Breakthrough Starshot is an initiative by the Breakthrough Foundation to prove ultra-fast ultra-light nanospacecraft can be launched by laser radiation pressure...
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    Status update and instrumentation prospects for GTC and other ORM/OT telescopes for the coming semesters
    The status of instrumentation at GTC and other ORM/OT telescopes will be reviewed. A short introduction regarding the different ways to access telescope time...