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Calar Alto

Calar Alto

(kal -ar al -toh) Mountain site in Spain of the German–Spanish Astronomical Center.
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The instrument Carmenes, installed on the 4-metre telescope at the observatory of Calar Alto in Andalusia, Spain, is capable to identify more than 100'000 colours in the infrared!
CYCLING: Chris Froome stretched his lead in the Vuelta a Espana to 1min 19secs after finishing second on the 187.5k route from Lorca to Observatorio Astronomico de Calar Alto.
One of my favorite was taken by Vicent Peris at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain--it looks like the cover of a sci-fi novel, but it's real.
We will describe the process of reduction of 3D spectroscopic data through spectra obtained with two different instruments located at WHT4.2m (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos) and CAHA 3.5 m (Observatorio de Calar Alto) telescopes: INTEGRAL and PMAS.
3 ( ANI ): Researchers have identified and classified more than half a million galaxies, after seven years of close observation of the universe from the Observatory of Calar Alto (CAHA, Almeria) and a technique that is able to break the stars' energy in their colors through astronomical filters.
CYCLING: TOUR OF SPAIN: The 12th stage from Almeria to Calar Alto (British Eurosport, 11.30am-4.30pm).
This study makes use of the data provided by the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey (http://califa.caha.es/).
The National University of Distance Education, the Astrobiology Center (CSIC-INTA), the University of Cadiz, and the German-Spanish Calar Alto Observatory participated in the research too.
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