THE
ING NEWSLETTER |
No.
4, March 2001 |
News from the
Roque
A
picture is worth a thousand words... So rather than wasting many lines
we show two recent pictures of buildings that are being erected. The first
one is of the 1.2-m Mercator telescope
facility, located close to the Isaac Newton telescope and not to be mistaken
with the future Liverpool telescope that will be constructed nearby. The
second picture shows progress made on the
GranTeCan 10-m telescope project. The lower part of the telescope building
is well advanced. The gaps in the concrete construction are for future
air ventilation apertures of the dome area. Recently the University of
Florida and two Mexican institutes, UNAM and INAOE, signed up to the GranTeCan
project.
© Isaac Newton Group
of Telescopes