Calar Alto Observatory (Spain)

The Calar Alto Observatory is located in the Sierra de Los Filabres Andalucía Mountains in Southern Spain, north of Almeria. It is jointly operated by the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg (Germany) and by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC in Granada (Spain). It provides three telescopes with apertures of 1.23 m, 2.2 m, and 3.5 m as well as a Schmidt reflector. WEBT observations at the Calar Alto Observatory are done under the MAPCAT program coordinated from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC.

Telescope parameters: Long= -2.54625 deg, Lat= +37.2236 deg, Alt= 2168m.