page_title: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
section_title: GREGOR
hierarchical_section_title: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam / Technical projects / GREGOR
caption_attribution_description: English: Solar Telescope GREGOR at the Teide Observatory, Tenerife, Canary Islands.
context_page_description: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam is a German research institute. It is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam founded in 1874. The latter was the world's first observatory to emphasize explicitly the research area of astrophysics. The AIP was founded in 1992, in a re-structuring following the German reunification.
  The AIP is privately funded and member of the Leibniz Association. It is located in Babelsberg in the state of Brandenburg, just west of Berlin, though the Einstein Tower solar observatory and the great refractor telescope on Telegrafenberg in Potsdam belong to the AIP.
  The key topics of the AIP are cosmic magnetic fields on various scales and extragalactic astrophysics. Astronomical and astrophysical fields studied at the AIP range from solar and stellar physics to stellar and galactic evolution to cosmology.
  The institute also develops research technology in the fields of spectroscopy and robotic telescopes.
context_section_description: GREGOR is a 1.5 m telescope for solar research of the Teide Observatory on Tenerife. It is a new type of solar telescope,  which supersedes the previous 45 cm Gregory-Coudé telescope. GREGOR is equipped with adaptive optics and will achieve a resolution of 70 km of the Sun's surface. The investigation of these small structures is important for the understanding of the underlying processes of the interaction of magnetic fields with plasma turbulence on the Sun. The development of the Gregor telescope will be led by the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) with the participation of several institutes. The telescope is named after James Gregory, the inventor of the Gregorian telescope.
caption: Solar telescope GREGOR
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