It is an initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) via its Unit for Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) with the collaboration of the scientific institutions of the Canary Island Observatories, among these the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), the largest optical-infrared telescope in the world, of the Museum of Science and

Cosmocolor is an exhibition which has selected some of the best pics of the sky obtained by amateur astronomers who participated in "Fotocósmica 2004", a competition organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to create the Astronomical Image Bank (BIA). Amateur astronomers have a large number of very valuable and high quality