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WORKSHOP 2025
Following the first meeting of the La Palma Interferometer project (LPI) which took place last November in the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada (Cádiz), from April 7th to 9th, 2025 La Palma hosted the second Workshop dedicated to this important project.
ABOUT US

The "Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF, Fundación Canaria" (FGG) is a Spanish no-profit institution constituted by "INAF", the Italian Institute of Astrophysics.

The FGG's aim is to promote the astrophysical research, as foreseen in the international agreement of May 26, 1979 ("Acuerdo de Cooperación en Materia de Astrofísica, B.O.E. Núm.161, 6 Jul 1979"), by managing and running the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), a 3.58m optical/infrared telescope located in the Island of San Miguel de La Palma, together with its scientific, technical and administrative facilities.



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TNG staff is composed of about 30 people, half of whom are Italians who emigrated to the island of La Palma a long time ago, some of them for about thirty years.