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First of all I would like to thank all the Baader team that made a wonderful work. This includes the effort and work done for the prototype, the tendering process and the installation of the final ATLAS-Teide unit.
ATLAS-Teide is not only a great instrument for the detection of small NEAs (Near-Earth Asteroids), it is the prove that the new modular design that ATLAS will follow for its future instruments, can do very well.
In the last days we were able to test the system on the sky, and the results show the tremendous potencial of ATLAS-Teide.
The installation of 16 telescopes, cameras, motorfocus and four mounts in a week is a great work. Let me add that the integration of the hardware in our control system proved to work also very well.Preliminary tests show that we have still some small issues to solve with part of the hardware. Nothing unexpected. We will likely have to work a little more in the alignment and tilting of some tubes, and a few minor things.
The most important test was that we were able to run a complete observing run. The system did very well and we obtained great images.
Javier Licandro – Planetary Scientiest at Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Notes from Baader Planetarium
We’re delighted about the positive feedback from Javier Licandro and the IAC team. If you’d like to learn more about the engineering and logistics behind this ambitious project — how we tackled the custom hardware, overcame installation challenges, and ensured a seamless handover — we invite you to read our detailed blog post. It offers additional insights from our side, including technical details and behind-the-scenes impressions of the setup process. Check out our post: IAC-ATLAS: Completion of an Extraordinary Project at the Teide Observatory
