Leaving Houari Boumedienne Airport at Algiers towards Madrid, the first step on our trip to the Canaries. |
The Youth Hostel we reached at night at the Valle de Guerra near La Laguna on the Tenerife island.
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Few kilometers remaining to the ORM Observatory. |
In front of the Gran Telescopio Canarias |
Inside the Beast, with the appropriate gear |
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Standing dwarfed in full delectation.
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The huge primary mirror. A whopping 10.4m polished at a submicron accuracy. Can you see the mirror itself ?
The secondary mirror can be seen in the back.
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Inside the GTC control room |
The history of the GTC unfolding in this panel. |
The Isaac Newton Telescope of 2.5m of diameter. |
Inside the The Isaac Newton Telecope's dome. |
Inside the control room of the Isaac Newton telecope |
A crowded landscape of telescopes.
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Solar observation at the Teide Observatory |
With Antonio Gonzalez, our scientific guide during our whole stay at ORM. |
At the Teide Observatory on the Tenerife Island |
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A friendly crow making its show. |
Learned explanations at one of the optical telescopes at Teide Observatory.
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Displaying the "flag". |
Posing next to the Swedish Solar tower with the imposing William Herschell telescope behind us. |
The end of the vacuum telescope. Adaptative optics corrects the mirror several hundred to more than 1000 times per second, it is an astonishingly well performing solar telescope. |
See here for details.
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Inside the sunspots ! Perhaps the highest-resolution solar image ever of a sunspot observed on July 15, 2002. Scale: 20.000km x 30.000km.
Inside the Solar tower, at the end of the telescope where the Sun's pictures are collected and treated.
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The Belgian Mercator telescope |
One of the two 17m MAGIC telescopes working on night duty to catch galactic and extra galactic Gamma rays. |
Here another view of MAGIC 1. Can you see us somewhere in the frame? We are all there. See next picture at right. |
Here the inverted reflection image of the team along with Carlos Gonzalez, the ORM's Director. For a more detailed straightened up picture, see here. Can you find out who took the picture?
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A view of MAGIC 1 and 2 as well as the GTC at upper right from the heliport. |
Wandering in Out-of-this-World landscapes ... |
A picture in front of a huge standing rock. |
Leaving the Teide Observatory towards Los Cristanos in the Southern part of the Tenerife island to take from there an evening ferry to La Palma
Lunar landscapes ? |
We see the Teide Observatory in the background at the top.
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Martian landscapes? |
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Weird geological formations |
More weird geological formations. Click to see the details. |
Spectacle of desolation: the extensive Summer fire wiped out whole forests from the Tenerife island. |
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Boarding the ferry from Tenerife to La Palma. |
Boarding the ferry "Volcan de Taburiente" that we see here reaching the harbor. |
Eerie view from the ferry's deck while leaving the harbor early evening. |
 Staying the night at Santa Cruz de la Palma with a view on a small harbor from the Hotel's room.
The view o the Atlantic ocean in early morning. |
A glorious sushine a little bit later |
A view of Santa Cruz de la Palma far away from the coast in the late afternoon. |
At the "Museum de la Ciencia y el Cosmos" in Tenerife |
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View of the Museum from the air
At the small planetarium of the Museum.
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Last Shoots |
Night observation with the Milky Way in the back. Thanks Antonio. |
At the summit of the Roque de Los Muchachos mountain
Bakir pausing with the imposing Teide Mount in his back |
Back at Algiers landing under a fiery sky. |
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