Friday, June 02, 2006
Say Hello To Stella
Tenerife has a new observatory at Izaña on Mount Teide, since the opening ceremony of the STELLA observatory was celebrated on May 18 2006. STELLA is a project of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and is located at the Teide Observatory on the Canarian island of Tenerife, Spain. STELLA (abbreviation for STELLar Activity) is a long-term project for observing and monitoring activity tracers on cool stars with two robotic telescopes, which work autonomously by means of an artificial intelligence.
STELLA observatory website | Location | STELLA's weather station info
Robotic STELLA telescopes inaugurated on Tenerife
Sarcastic quip. So this is how engineers get a date: they give their artificially intelligent creations girl's names. Well, they say it beats natural stupidity!
