Télescope Heliographique pour l'Etude du Magnétisme et des Instabilités Solaries (THEMIS) Solar Telescope: 90 cm diameter, built 1996, operated by France and Italy.[2][3]
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.
SPECULOOS Northern Observatory (SNO): 1-meter telescopes, one telescope (Artemis) completed in June 2019
PIRATE: (Physics Innovations Robotic Astronomical Telescope Explorer) used remotely by the open university for masters in astronomy
COAST: (COmpletely Autonomous Survey Telescope) used remotely by the open university as part of a free course called “astronomy with an online telescope”
Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT): robotic telescopes of 80cm TTT1 y TTT2 and 2 meters TTT3 y TTT4. TTT is a project of Light Bridges in collaboration with IAC.(Spain). 2022.
Radio telescopes for cosmic microwave background astronomy
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.[6]
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.[7]
Climate
The position where the observatory is situated has a mediterranean climate (KöppenCsb), 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.[11]
^"First Light for Laser Guide Star Technology Collaboration". European Southern Observatory. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
^THEMIS Website
^ THEMIS Instrument Paper
^GREGOR Website at KIS, Freiburg
^David Airey (1993). "Construction of a small spectrograph for stellar spectroscopy and its use on some brighter stars". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 103: 11–18. Bibcode:1993JBAA..103...11A.
^"Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 4 September 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
^"25th anniversary of the discovery of the first brown dwarf".
^"Izana Climate Normals 1991-2020". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2024-03-22.
^"Valores climatológicos normales. Izaña" (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal de Meteorología. Archived from the original on 2024-04-04.
^Vernin, J.; et al. (2002). "Site-testing Results at the Teide Observatory" (PDF). ASPC. 266: 454. Bibcode:2002ASPC..266..454V.
^"ESO and Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Sign Agreement on Adaptive Optics Collaboration". ESO Announcement. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
Rayrole, J. (1985). Muller, R. (ed.). "The European observatory at the Canary Islands". High Resolution in Solar Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics. 233: 32–50. Bibcode:1985LNP...233...32R. doi:10.1007/BFb0022394. ISBN 3-540-15678-X.
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