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Observatory Attractions In La Palma

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La Palma , also San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands, Spain. La Palma has an area of 706 km2 making it the fifth largest of the seven main Canary Islands. The total population is about 86,000, of which 18,000 live in the capital, Santa Cruz de la Palma and about 20,000 in Los Llanos de Aridane. La Palma has sister city status with El Dorado Hills, California. Its highest mountain is the Roque de los Muchachos, at 2,426 metres, being second among the peaks of the Canaries only to the peaks of the Teide massif on Tenerife. In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands. It was as a res...
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  • 1. 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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  • 2. 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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  • 3. 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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