Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

Organization	IAC
Location	La Palma, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean (Island owned by Spain)
Coordinates	28 46 N, 17 53 W
Altitude	2,500 m
Webpage	IAC website
Telescopes
Gran Telescopio Canarias	11.35 m reflecting telescope
William Herschel Telescope	4.2 m reflecting telescope
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo	3.5 m reflecting telescope
Nordic Optical Telescope	2.56 m reflecting telescope
Isaac Newton Telescope	2.5 m reflecting telescope
Liverpool Telescope	2.0 m reflecting telescope
Mercator Telescope	1.2 m reflecting telescope
Swedish Solar Telescope	1.0 m refracting vacuum solar telescope
Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope	1.0 m reflecting telescope
Dutch Open Telescope	0.45 m reflecting solar telescope
Carlsberg Meridian Telescope	0.18 m refracting telescope

The seeing statistics for Roque de los Muchachos Observatory make it the third best location for optical and infrared astronomy after Dome C, Antarctica and Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii. The site has some of the premier astronomical facilities in the Northern Hemisphere, including the adaptive optics corrected Swedish Solar Telescope which provides the highest resolution solar imaging of any telescope.