MEGARA commissioning highlights
First Light Target: BD+33d2642 Type: Post-AGB star with B2 IV spectral type Mode: MEGARA IFU (LCB) Setup: R=6000 LR-R VPH Exposure: 10 seconds Channels: R (Halpha), GB (continuum) [...]
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07, 2017
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07, 2017
Physics opportunities with a new universe’s view: the SKA radio telescope
Start date: 06/11/2017 End date: 07/11/2017 Meeting place: Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) CSIC/UV, Paterna, Valencia (Spain) Organizer: Olga Mena Requejo (IFIC/CSIC-UV) Rationale: The Square Kilometre [...]
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06, 2017
Entrevista a Xavier Barcons en Andalucía TV
El lunes 26 de junio, ATV publicó una interesante entrevista a Xavier Barcons en la que se habló, sobre todo, de instrumentación y del EELT. ¡Muy recomendable!
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06, 2017
ESA: Gravitational wave mission selected, planet-hunting mission moves forward
The LISA trio of satellites to detect gravitational waves from space has been selected as the third large-class mission in ESA’s Science programme, while the Plato exoplanet hunter moves into development. Following [...]
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06, 2017
Proposing and processing MEGARA observations with GTC
MEGARA integration in GTC (video) Start date: 19/09/2017 End date: 22/09/2017 Meeting place: Anfiteatro Julio Palacios (M2), Facultad de CC. Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Organizer: [...]
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06, 2017
“Spectroscopic Surveys with the ELT: A Gigantic Step into the Deep Universe”
Start date: 17/10/2017 End date: 20/10/2017 Meeting place: Palacio de Congresos de Toledo Organizer: Jesús Gallego (UCM) Description: Scientific Rationale: The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) [...]
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06, 2017
Director of GRANTECAN
Deadline: 14th July 2017 The Board of Directors of Gran Telescopio de Canarias, S.A. (GRANTECAN) invites applications for the position of “Director of GRANTECAN”. More information
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06, 2017
Últimos pasos hacia la primera luz de MEGARA
(we apologize, this information is only available in Spanish) El instrumento MEGARA, que llegó a La Palma el pasado 28 de marzo, se encuentra ya instalado en el GTC y [...]
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05, 2017
Novedades sobre las ICTS/IOI de Astronomía (mayo 2017)
(we apologize, this information is only available in Spanish) En la última reunión del Comité Directivo de la Red de Infraestructuras de Astronomía (27 de marzo de 2017) se comunicaron las siguientes novedades respecto [...]
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05, 2017
Observing time with the INT and Mercator telescopes
Deadline: June 11th 2017 The Spanish night Time Allocation Committee (CAT) of the Observatories on the Canary Islands announces the special call for proposals for observing time with [...]