The inauguration of the OpenScience Observatories Open University - Coast and Pirate Telescopes - Mount Teide, Teneriffe - Canary Islands

Image grab from the Inauguration video presentation - Inauguration Presentation from the clamshell dome of the COAST Telescope - Credit Open University

 More information on the Inauguration Event

George and Anita Roberts, friends and financial sponsors of the Jodrell Plank Observatory, have, at this time, internet access to the Robotic Telescopes on the extinct volcano Mount Teide -Teneriffe - Canary Isles.

" George has agreed to allow the Jodrell Plank Observatory to use data obtained from these fantastic remote observatories at high altitude under pristine skies. Wherever such information is used by our Imaging Team Leader' -  Pipp Stakkert, the Observatory will credit the data aquisition from telescope.org- Open University." Kurt Thrust -current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

'Clamshells' containing the PIRATE and COAST Robotic Telescopes - Credit: telescope.org- Open University

 

PIRATE Telescope - Credit: telescope.org- Open University

 "Image data collected by the PIRATE Telescope this week. Sulphur, Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen filters were used and pasted into the Red, Green and Blue channels of this image respectively.  Pipp Stakkert, the Jodrell Plank Observatory Visualisation Team Leader, has made a good attempt at this target made famous by the iconic Hubble Space Telescope image 'The Pillars of Creation'." Kurt Thrust- current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

Comparison between an enlargement from the PIRATE Telescope image of M16 on the left and The Hubble Space Telescope on the right