Teide Observatory

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Teide Observatory
Organization:	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Location:	Tenerife
Established:	1964

The Observatorio del Teide (Teide Observatory) is an astronomical observatory on Tenerife operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. Opened in 1964, it became one of the first major international observatories, attracting telescopes from different countries around the world because of the good astronomical seeing conditions. Later the emphasis for optical telescopes shifted more towards Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma nearby, as the seeing conditions proved to be even better there.

1 Telescopes
2 Other buildings on the site
3 External links

[edit] Telescopes

[edit] Solar telescopes

Solar Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT): 70 cm diameter. Operated by the Kiepenheuer Institute of Solar Physics, Freiburg (Germany). Installed in 1989.
THEMIS Solar Telescope: 90 cm diameter, built 1996, operated by Italy and France.
Gregor Solar Telescope: 1.5 m, operated by a German consortium. Not operational.
A node of the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON), operated by the University of Birmingham, UK.

[edit] Nocturnal telescopes

Carlos Sánchez Infrared Telescope (TCS): 152 cm diameter installed by the UK in 1971
Mons reflecting telescope: 50 cm diameter, operated by the University of Mons (Belgium), built in 1972.
IAC-80 Telescope: 80 cm IAC telescope, installed in 1991.
OGS Telescope: 1 m European Space Agency optical ground station for satellite communications, built in 1998.
STARE Telescope: 10 cm Stellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets.
Bradford robotic telescope: Opening 2006
(STELLA I and STELLA II) robotic telescopes: 120 cm STELLA is an abbreviation of STELLar Activity, operated by Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) with the collaboration of the IAC, put in operation 2006.
SLOOH: US robotic telescopes, built in 2004.