Vacuum Tower Telescope
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The Vacuum Tower Telescope is an evacuated-optics solar telescope located at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It is operated by the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik.
The VTT at the Teide Observatory, Tenerife.
Vacuum Tower Telescope
Close view of VTT
Tenerife
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Tenerife is the largest and most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwestern coast of Africa. With an area of 2,034.38 k
Vacuum Tower Telescope
…The Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) is an evacuated-optics solar telescope located at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It is operated by the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS). It was built between 1983 and 1986, with first light in 1988…
Panorama of Teide National Park
Alonso Fernández de Lugo presenting the native rulers of Tenerife to Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon
Amaro Pargo (1678–1741), corsair and merchant from Tenerife who participated in the Spanish treasure fleet (the Spanish-American trade route)
Woman of La Victoria, Tenerife, by Alfred Diston, 1828