IN FAVOUR OF A DARK SKY

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  • La presentadora Verónica Martín junto a los colaboradores e invitados del programa ‘Soñando Estrellas’. En esta edición participaron Enrique Pérez (IAA-CSIC), impulsor del proyecto Astroaccesible; la astrofísica divulgadora Alejandra Goded, responsable de la sección ‘Mirando al cielo’; y el doctorando del IAC Luis Barrios, protagonista del espacio ‘Del cielo a la tesis’.
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    Soñando Estrellas aborda “Astroaccesible”, un proyecto para acercar la ciencia a las personas con discapacidad visual
    El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) emitió este jueves, 26 de febrero, a las 22:30 horas, su espacio radiofónico ‘Soñando Estrellas’ en La Radio Canaria. Este programa semanal de 30 minutos, conducido por Verónica Martín y ya disponible en iVoox , nace para divulgar la labor de los más de 400 profesionales del centro y rendir homenaje a la visión de Francisco Sánchez , fundador del IAC. El programa de esta semana contó con una entrevista a Enrique Pérez , investigador y divulgador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía y del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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  • Vegetation moisture maps taken by space camera based on uncooled InGaAs technology
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    The IAC patents a key technology for improving the quality of space images
    The European Patent Office (EPO) has granted the IAC a patent on an invention developed within IACTEC-Space . This technology improves the quality of images obtained by high-performance cameras under the demanding conditions found in space. The effectiveness of this technology has already been tested on three space missions, applying it to the DRAGO (Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) cameras, developed at the IAC for Earth observation from space. Carlos Colodro, electronics engineer at IACTEC-Space and the main person responsible for this development, comments that
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  • Reunión anual del CCI realizada en La Palma
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    The Comité Científico Internacional of the Canary Islands Observatories holds its annual meeting in La Palma
    The members of the Comité Científico Internacional (CCI) of the Canary Islands Observatories met today on the island of La Palma. The ISC is the body established in the International Agreements that gave rise to the Canary Islands Observatories managed by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and guarantees the effective participation of the User Institutions in decision-making regarding their use, maintenance and improvement. The meeting, held at the Hotel H10 Taburiente Playa, began with a minute's silence in memory of Professor Francisco Sánchez, founder of the IAC, whose legacy
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