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OpenScience Observatories

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Autonomous robotic facilities PIRATE and COAST, owned and operated by The Open University. Located at Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife. Website telescope.org

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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) @iacastrofisica.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Bajo los cielos del Observatorio del Teide, los telescopios robóticos PIRATE y COAST combinan automatización y precisión para estudiar estrellas, exoplanetas y fenómenos transitorios. Desde Canarias, la luz del universo se transforma en datos y conocimiento compartido.

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Panagiotis Xipteras @xipteras.com · 26/12/2024

Orion ✨ #constellation #stars

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OpenScience Observatories @osobservatories.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The COAST camera is currently slightly rotated with respect to North, by about 5 degrees, as shown by the screenshot from astrometry.net. Will be corrected in due course, but science and deep-sky photos shouldn't be affected.

A star field taken recently via telescope.org, with celestial coordinates overlaid (screenshot of astrometry.net).

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OpenScience Observatories @osobservatories.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A few days ago a new filter wheel was installed on COAST. The weather wasn't kind so a full commissioning is pending, but COAST is operational again and returns images in acceptable focus.

The replacement filter wheel for COAST (CFW by PWI) out of teh box before installation.

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

View of Teide volcano (Tenerife) taken by me from the old observatory on Mount Guajara. The observatory was established by Charles Piazzi Smyth. Details: royalsociety.org/blog/2019/10... #astrohistory #canarias

View of Teide volcano (Tenerife) taken by me from the old observatory on Mount Guajara. The observatory established by Charles Piazzi Smyth. Details: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2019/10/above-the-clouds #astrohistory

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"Online team work in space science and astronomy at the Open University". How distance-learning astro students at #theopenuniversity conduct undergraduate team projects together oro.open.ac.uk/71420/ DOI: doi.org/10.29311/202... #astroedu

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Messier 33 (NGC 598, The Triangulum Galaxy), 60,000 ly across and 2.723 million ly from Earth, "taken" by me via The Open University upgraded COAST PlaneWave CDK17 Autonomous Robotic Telescope at Teide observatory, Tenerife 18/08/2021 @osobservatories.bsky.social 🔭

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

M51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy) taken by me using The Open University remote/robotic COAST 14" SCT at Teide observatory in Tenerife. Amazing to think this spiral galaxy is c. 23 million light-years from Earth... @osobservatories.bsky.social 🔭

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Prof Bill Lionheart @billlion.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

M51 the Whirlpool Galaxy using the COAST telescope @osobservatories.bsky.social

An astrophotograph of a spiral shaped galaxy with a smaller one next to it

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Intriguing new JWST image just dropped. It shows the Sombrero Galaxy in (literally) a whole new light, revealing the galaxy's iconic "brim" as a dusty, clumpy ring. 🧪🔭 webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

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OpenScience Observatories @osobservatories.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Have you been waiting for your images for some time? Unfortunately the COAST filter wheel is currently unreliable, and so throughput is slow. To mitigate we are redirecting some image requests to PIRATE instead.

Close-up of PIRATE optical tube assembly and mount at night, illuminated with dim red light in the open dome.

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OpenScience Observatories @osobservatories.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Professor Ulrich Kolb and Dr Janet Sumner give an overview of the OpenScience Observatories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-a2...

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OpenSTEM Labs: OpenScience Observatories

YouTube video by The Open University's Faculty of STEM

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OpenScience Observatories @osobservatories.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

A pleasant sunny evening at Teide Observatory - hoping for a clear night.

Webcam still looking down on PIRATE and COAST domes on a sunny evening.

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