The IAC will participate in the Weeks of Science and Innovation in the Canaries

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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence, will participate in a range of activities in the framework of the Weeks of Science and Innovation in the Canaries, 2016, organized by the Canary Agency of Research, Innovation and the Information Society (ACIISI), of the Canary Government, from 7th to 20th November.

Tribute to photography

On Wednesday, 16th November at 19h and in collaboration with the Museum of Science and the Cosmos of Museums of Tenerife, there will be a presentation at the museum of the project "Niépce: from the negative to the positive". The aim is to pay tribute to photography and to one of its key originators, Joseph Niépce, during teh 200th annivarsary of the first photographic negatives in history. This tribute is from astronomy to  photography, which  permitted the data content from telescopes to be boosted by a large factor.

More information at: Semanas de la Ciencia y la Innovación en Canarias 2016

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