Title

Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, 2009.

Caption

Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, 2009. Several astronomical observatories have been built at Roque de Los Muchachos, the highest point on La Palma at an altitude of just over 2400 metres. The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) is a 2.56 metre reflecting telescope funded by Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. It began observing in 1988.

Date

1475

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Peter Thompson

Reference

HRM19D71_253

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,7Mb) / 17,1in x 11,4in / 5120 x 3413 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building buildings technology street mountain mountains country Spain Spanish Scandinavia science Scandinavian telescope astronomy national park geography color colour lane avenue dome observatory Canary Islands location century Eighties 1980s 20th century La Palma Santa Cruz de Tenerife PETER THOMPSON decade geographical feature TGN photograph Peter Thompson Thompson Peter PTM Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente Roque de Los Muchachos Nordic Optical Telescope photograph