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Over five hours about two thousand people could know first-hand, and with Calar Alto Deputy Director Jesús Aceituno explanations, the Observatory installations and the instruments that allow Calar Alto serving the International astronomy community. The Junta de Andalucía Government Delegate visited the stand and also enjoyed the 3D constellation exposition that the Asociación de Amigos de Calar Alto presented on this call. With them we shared this first European Night of the Researches, which was a brilliant success.
The European Night of the Researches is a European project of public outreach promoted by the European Commission within the Marie Sktodowska-Curie actions of the 2020 Horizon Program, which is held on more than 350 european cities at the same time.
The German-Spanish Calar Alto Observatory is located at Sierra de los Filabres, north of Almería (Andalucía, Spain). It is jointly operated by the Instituto Max Planck de Astronomía in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC) in Granada, Spain. Calar Alto has three telescopes with apertures of 1.23m, 2.2m and 3.5m. A 1.5m aperture telescope, also located at the mountain, is operated under control of the Observatorio de Madrid.
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