Affiliation
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Main category
Natural Sciences (Astrophysics and Astrononmy)
Caption
Promotional video produced by the Instituto de Astrofíscia de Canarias on Tenerife about the new German solar telescope GREGOR.
Further information
After ten years of development, the new German solar telescope GREGOR will start operating at Observatorio del Teide of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias on Tenerife. It is the largest solar telescope in Europe and number three worldwide. It will provide the Spanish, German and international communities of solar physicists with new and better instrumentation which will enable them to investigate our home star in unprecedented detail.
The GREGOR solar telescope has been built by a German consortium under the leadership of the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik in Freiburg with the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam and the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung in Katlenburg/Lindau as partners, and with contributions by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen, and the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Further reading
http://www.kis.uni-freiburg.de/en/observatories/gregor/
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