International Center for Astronomical, Medical and Ecological Research       Contacts Conferences Telescopes Medical and Biological Station Images    Telescopes The low atmospheric water vapor content and the high atmospheric transparency in the UV- and IR-range allow to infer that the Terskol Peak is one of the best observational sites in Europe. The mean seeing in this site is about 1 arcsec. The average number of clear night hours is about 1000. Telescopes & Equipment  2m RCC Telescope produced by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH (Germany)  Large Horizontal Solar Telescope    Zeiss-600 Telescope  MAESTRO -  MAtrix Echelle SpecTROgraph  MMCS -  Multi Mode Cassegrain Spectrometer  TUVES-  Terskol Ultra Violet Echelle Spectrometer Some of the observatory activities  Spectral investigations of interstellar clouds, solar analogs, X-ray binary stars, etc.  Orbit calculation and monitoring of geosynchronous satellites  Simultaneous observations with the Synchronous Network of Optical Telescopes to study microvariability of stars   Study of gas and dust in comets  Atmospheric studies