Stargazing on Teide: the Telescope Is Yours to Point

Teide National Park after dark is one of the darkest places anyone can reach without effort, which is the whole reason to come up here at night. The telescopes are modern and you use them yourself rather than queueing for a look through somebody else's. Planets, galaxies, clusters: what is available depends on the night and the season, as it always does. The talking part is about how people came to depend on the stars, long before any of it was written down. Nothing else is included. This is the sky, and the instruments to look at it with.