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"100 Hours of Astronomy" is one of the cornerstone projects promoted for the International Year of Astronomy 2009, a worldwide event consisting of an impressive range of public outreach activities offered at live science centres, research institutions, amateur associations and many other places, including open air activities. Calar Alto is taking part in the 24-hour live webcast "Around the World in 80 Telescopes". First-line world observatories will participate in this continuous broadcast the 3rd and 4th of April. Calar Alto time slot is assigned at 22:00 UT the 3rd of April (00:00 Central European Summer Time the 4th of April)...
Calar Alto observatory is looking for ideas for a legacy survey with the PMAS/PPAK Integral Field Unit, currently the widest field-of-view (74"x64") IFU in the world...
Asteroid 2009 DS36 was discovered from Calar Alto Observatory (Spain) in the morning of February 25th 2009. Its fast motion on the sky suggested that it had to be located not too far away from Earth and indeed the preliminary orbit shows that this is a Near-Earth Object (NEO), the first object of this class discovered from Calar Alto. Its estimated diameter is around 15 meters...
A German research team has measured the distances to some of the coolest and oldest objects of our Galaxy. Thanks to Calar Alto telescopes and instruments, this team has been able to more than double the number of metal poor subdwarf stars whose distances have been measured by direct methods. Also, they have shown that one of the objects they observed is a brown dwarf, the oldest brown dwarf known...
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