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Observatory Attractions In Canary Islands

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The Canary Islands is a Spanish archipelago and the southernmost autonomous community of Spain located in the Atlantic Ocean, 100 kilometres west of Morocco at the closest point. The Canaries are among the outermost regions of the European Union proper. It is also one of the eight regions with special consideration of historical nationality recognized as such by the Spanish Government. The Canary Islands belong to the African Plate like the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, the two on the African mainland.The seven main islands are Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. The archipelago includes much smal...
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  • 3. Observatorium Roque de Los Muchachos La Palma
    This is a list of observatory codes, or IAU codes, with their corresponding astronomical observatories. The Minor Planet Center – a service of the International Astronomical Union – assigns for each registered observatory a 3-digit code in the range 000 to Z99. The code serves as a unique identifier for observations taken of hundreds of thousands of minor planets and thousands of comets orbiting in the Solar System. More than 197 millions such astrometric records exist. This list is based on MPC's periodically published and revised List Of Observatory Codes. Over time, the number of astronomical observatories worldwide has been growing constantly. As of October 2018, this list contains 2095 observatory codes published in MPC's official list.The registry is limited to observatories whic...
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  • 5. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias La Palma
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is an astrophysical research institute located in the Canary Islands. It was founded in 1975 at the University of La Laguna.It operates two astronomical observatories in the Canary Islands: Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife.The current director of the IAC is Rafael Rebolo López.
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  • 8. Telescopio Nazionale Galileo Garafia
    The Galileo National Telescope, is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The TNG is operated by the Fundación Galileo Galilei, Fundación Canaria, a non-profit institution, on behalf of the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics . The telescope saw first light in 1998 and is named after the Italian Renaissance astronomer Galileo Galilei. Observations at the TNG can be proposed through the Italian Time Allocation Committee which assigns, based on the scientific merit of the proposals, 75% of the available time. The rest of the time is at disposal of the Spanish and international astronomical communities. The TNG is open to new proposals two times a year, typically in March–April and Se...
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  • 9. Teide Observatory Tenerife
    Mount Teide is a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. Its 3,718-metre summit is the highest point in Spain and the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic. If measured from the ocean floor, it is at 7,500 m the highest volcano in the world base-to-peak outside of the Hawaiian Islands, and is described by UNESCO and NASA as Earth's third-tallest volcanic structure. Teide's elevation makes Tenerife the tenth highest island in the world. Teide is an active volcano: its most recent eruption occurred in 1909 from the El Chinyero vent on the northwestern Santiago rift. The United Nations Committee for Disaster Mitigation designated Teide a Decade Volcano because of its history of destructive eruptions and its proximity to several large towns, of which the closes...
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