Spain, I am coming.
Ah, the harsh job of an astronomer…wake up one morning and discover that in two weeks you have to flight to Spain, for an observing run  at a new telescope… What could you say, when they are going to pay you the flights,  the staying, and it’s a good chance for your job to learn something new, to get involved in a new project? What could you say, besides…

” My luggage is ready, when does the plane take off? “

So, just a quick look at Google Map:

to discover that the telescope is close to Granada [where I am staying a day as a tourist: wouldn't you me to be back in Munich on a Saturday night, right?!] .

Then a check at the official website to read that ” the 30-meter telescope on Pico Veleta in the Spanish Sierra Nevada is one of the two radio astronomy facilities operated by IRAM. Built in only four years (1980 to 1984) at an elevation of 2850 meters, it is one of today’s largest and most sensitive radio telescopes for tracing millimeter waves”.

A look at the pictures gallery [Preview to the pictures I will take]

And in two weeks ready to leave!