astro.wikisort.org - Institution

Teide Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio del Teide), IAU code 954, is an astronomical observatory on Mount Teide at 2,390 metres (7,840 ft), located on Tenerife, Spain. It has been operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias since its inauguration 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.

Teide Observatory

Organization	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Observatory code	954
Location	Tenerife, Atlantic Ocean
Coordinates	28°18′00″N 16°30′35″W
Altitude	2,390 m (7,840 ft)
Established	1964
Website	www.iac.es/en,%20https://www.iac.es/es
Telescopes	IAC80 Laboratorio Solar MASTER telescope STELLA Telescopes THEMIS solar telescope Vacuum Newton Telescope COSMOSOMAS ESA Optical Ground Station GroundBIRD QUIJOTE Experiment Telescopio Carlos Sánchez Tenerife Experiment Vacuum Tower Telescope Very Small Array
Location of Teide Observatory
Related media on Commons
[edit on Wikidata]

Telescopes

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.[2]
• GREGOR Solar Telescope: 1.5 m, operated by a German consortium. In operation since May 2012.[3]
• A node of the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON), operated by the University of Birmingham, UK.
• One of six sites of the GONG network operated by the NSO Integrated Synoptic Program (NISP), USA.

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.[4]
• 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. Used by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey.
• Bradford Robotic Telescope: 35 cm Telescope for educational use.
• STELLA Telescopes (STELLA I and STELLA II) robotic telescopes: 120 cm STELLA is an abbreviation of STELLar Activity, operated by Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics (AIP) with the collaboration of the IAC, put in operation 2006.
• SLOOH: US robotic telescopes, built in 2004.
• SPECULOOS Northern Observatory (SNO): 1-meter telescopes, one telescope (Artemis) completed in June 2019

Radio telescopes for cosmic microwave background astronomy

• The 33 GHz interferometer
• The COSMOSOMAS Experiment (10 and 15 GHz)
• The Very Small Array (VSA: 14-element interferometer at 30 GHz)
• QUIJOTE CMB Experiment
• GroundBIRD

Other buildings on the site

The observatory has a visitors' centre and a residencia (hostel) for astronomers. Brian May helped construct a building there to study interplanetary dust.

List of discovered minor planets

The Minor Planet Center credits the discovery of several minor planets directly to the observatory.[5]

(79484) 1998 FH3	18 March 1998	list
(100747) 1998 EO4	3 March 1998	list
(175732) 1998 EW8	6 March 1998	list

(219078) 1998 GX	3 April 1998	list
(301883) 1998 EQ9	9 March 1998	list
(455329) 2002 PO63	12 August 2002	list

Discovery of the first brown dwarf star

In 1995, Rafael Rebolo López, María Rosa Zapatero-Osorio and Eduardo L. Martín published their discovery of Teide-1, which they found through optical observations using the 0.8 meter telescope at Teide Observatory.[6]

Climate

The position where the observatory is situated has a mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb), with average temperature features reminiscent of southern England. This renders in warm summers that averages around 23 °C (73 °F) with light frosts being possible and sometimes happening in winter. Extremes are moderated by its marine features, which combined with the altitude keeps temperatures below 30 °C (86 °F) even during heat waves, and in spite of the altitude the marine features are strong enough to prevent severe frosts. Sunshine levels, as typical of the nearby lowland arid climates, are high throughout the year. Many alpine areas at further distance from the equator are above the tree line at this elevation, but Teide is far above even any subarctic temperatures due to its position on the 28th parallel north.

Astroclimate and seeing

The useful observing time is given as 78% and the median FWHM seeing from DIMM measurements is given as 0.76" and 0.70" at two sites near the Carlos Sánchez Telescope.[8]

See also

References

External links

• Observatorio del Teide website
• Discover the Teide Observatory at worldflicks.org

На других языках

---

[de] Observatorio del Teide

Das Observatorio del Teide (Teide-Observatorium, internationaler Code 954) ist eine Sternwarte auf dem Berg Izaña, auf 2400 Meter Seehöhe, auf der Insel Teneriffa, nach dem es auch Observatorio de Izaña genannt wird. Es gehört zum Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) und bildet zusammen mit dem Roque-de-los-Muchachos-Observatorium auf La Palma das European Northern Observatory.

---

- [en] Teide Observatory

---

[es] Observatorio del Teide

El Observatorio del Teide, también conocido como Observatorio de Izaña, pertenece al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y junto con el Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos forman el conjunto observacional del Observatorio Norte Europeo. Está localizado en el macizo de Izaña, a 2400 metros de altitud, en la isla de Tenerife. Es considerado por la Comunidad Científica Internacional como uno de los observatorios más importantes del mundo.

---

[ru] Обсерватория Тейде

Обсерватория Тейде — астрономическая обсерватория, основанная в 1964 году на острове Тенерифе, Канарские острова, Испания. Руководство обсерваторией осуществляется Канарским институтом астрофизики. Является одной из первых международных обсерваторий в мире, в которой были установлены телескопы разными странами, так как в данной местности отличные астроклиматические условия. Позднее основные оптические наблюдения были перенесены на Обсерваторию Роке-де-лос-Мучачос на Ла-Пальму. Обсерватория Тейде считается одной из крупнейших обсерваторий мира.

---

---