Posted by Rolf Schlichenmaier | December 14, 2025 | General news

GREGOR is a 1.5-meter on-axis solar telescope at the Observatorio del Teide in Tenerife. We invite observing proposals for the first season campaign (April to August 2026), with the submission deadline on January 30, 2026.

The GREGOR instrumentation and the proposal submission process is described at: https://www.leibniz-kis.de/en/observatories/gregor/observations-with-gregor/

In 2026A the GRIS spectropolarimeter can be used with up to three simultaneous arms in Ca II IR 854.2 nm and He I 1083.0 nm and 770 nm in the slit scanner mode. As before, HiFI+ offers near-diffraction limited imaging with 50 to 100 frames per seconds in six spectral windows: Ca II H, G-band, blue continuum, broad- and narrow-band H-alpha, and TiO. The conventional AO system was recently upgraded with a faster Tip/Tilt mirror leading to an improved performance. In addition to the conventional AO, GREGOR offers a new off-limb AO mode for off-limb prominence observations with wavefront sensing in Halpha.

All observations can be executed either in person on-site or in remote mode.

Application can be submitted via the KIS time contingent allocated by the KIS Time Allocation Committee or via the International Time Program (ITP/CCI: https://www.iac.es/en/observatorios-de-canarias/international-scientific-committee) that is allocated by the EAST TAC (email to [email protected]) or via the Spanish TAC (http://research.iac.es/OOCC/solar-cat/).

For questions please contact Rolf Schlichenmaier at KIS via [email protected]