Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

Can you visit Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)? Yes

Included in some ORM guided visits; booking required.

A public night at an observatory usually starts at dusk with a short talk, then a line at the eyepiece of the main telescope for the Moon, a planet or a bright cluster, with volunteers' smaller telescopes set up outside. Dress for the night air even in summer: domes are not heated, so the telescope stays at outside temperature. Many nights sell out or cancel for clouds, so check the observatory's site on the day.

Telescopes at Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

2.56m Ritchey-Chretien.

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory complex: 19 observatories on one site

• CTAO North (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory North)Research observatory
• FACT TelescopeResearch observatory
• FRAM TelescopeResearch observatory
• Galileo National TelescopeResearch observatory
• Gran Telescopio CanariasPublic observatory, open to the public
• Gravitational Wave Optical Transient ObservatoryResearch observatory
• Isaac Newton TelescopePublic observatory, open to the public
• Jacobus Kapteyn TelescopeResearch observatory
• Large Size TelescopeResearch observatory
• Liverpool TelescopeResearch observatory
• MAGIC TelescopesResearch observatory
• MASCARA NorthResearch observatory
• Mercator TelescopeResearch observatory
• New Robotic TelescopeResearch observatory
• SuperWASP-NorthResearch observatory
• Swedish Solar TelescopeResearch observatory
• Warwick 1.0m TelescopeResearch observatory
• William Herschel TelescopeResearch observatory

• Jobs at Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

How dark the sky is at Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Research telescopes are often sited on mountains above the haze, so the real sky can be darker than the map suggests.

Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) among the observatories of Spain

Green dots are observatories open to the public, blue dots research or private sites, squares dark sky places; select one for its page. See Observatories in Spain for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Nordic Optical Telescope dome (Wikipedia): 28.757°N, 17.885°W.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Open the larger map · Directions. Mountain observatory roads are often gated after dark; go only on a scheduled public night.

Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) sits inside La Palma, a Bortle Class 2 dark sky place. See La Palma for camping, where to set up and the sky by season.

Nearest dark sky places

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Gran Telescopio CanariasGarafia (Roque de los Muchachos), Canary Islands, Spain, 1 km (0 mi). Guided daytime visits to the observatory including GTC on scheduled days via the ORM visitor center; booking required
• Isaac Newton TelescopeGarafia (Roque de los Muchachos), Canary Islands, Spain, 1 km (1 mi). Included in some ORM guided visits; booking required
• Roque de los Muchachos ObservatoryGarafia, Canary Islands, Spain, 1 km (1 mi). ORM visitor center and guided telescope visits by booking
• Teide ObservatoryLa Orotava (Izana), Canary Islands, Spain, 144 km (89 mi). Guided daytime tours by booking through authorized operators

Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) record

From the site's observatories dataset (observatoriesglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.