Commission 12 encompasses investigations on the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun, mostly accessible through the techniques of local and global...
The members of the Commission 36 Organizing Committee attending the IAU General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro met for a business session on August 7. Both members...
Commission 41 Working Group on Astronomy and World Heritage
What follows is a short report on the Business Meeting of the Astronomy and World Heritage Working Group held on Thursday August 6, 2009. This was the first...
Commission 41 was created at the VIIth IAU General Assembly in Zürich in 1948. From an inauspicious start-Otto Neugebauer was appointed the first President in...
Commissioning and first observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos Sánchez
The FastCam instrument platform, jointly developed by the IAC and the UPCT, allows, in real-time, acquisition, selection and storage of images with a resolution...
Commissioning instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias
During the GTC integration phase, the Commissioning Instrument (CI) will be a diagnostic tool for performance verification. The CI features four operation modes...
The plans for the commissioning of the GTC are being drawn up at the GTC Project Office. The commissioning will start before first light, with the commissioning...
Commissioning tests of an Integral Field Unit (IFU) at GREGOR solar telescope
We present the commissioning of an IFU based on image-slicers and a 2D-Field-of-View Scanning System (FoV-SS) for the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS). The...
Commissioning the CMB polarization telescope GroundBIRD with the full set of detectors
GroundBIRD is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment for observing the polarization pattern imprinted on large angular scales (ℓ > 6 ) from...