Ciencia con los telescopios óptico-infrarrojos de CAHA y ORM en la próxima década

A personal view/summary

F.Garzón

• The role of 2-4m telescope station is being redefined– 10m are in place ( + ELTs are coming)– popularity of legacy-type projects– funds are decreasing

• Comments from Spanish R+D+I National Plan– from tragedy to horror picture show

• Healthy community making use of a well managed observatories

• Classic role distribution bet. 2-4m and 10m– 10m to dedicated studies; small FOV; …– 2-4m to WF / survey facilities• but instrument suite is one of the keys

• The 2-4m facilities management and operation schemes are changing– it is essential that the community keeps a close

monitoring on all these processes– inputs to funding agencies; obs. directors; TACs; …– this meeting

• 2-4m are navigating in a difficult environment trying to survive– we need them– prove that high quality science can efficiently be

made• good complementarity bet. telescopes of different sizes

and the space projects

Let’s look forward for prompt results of all these efforts

THANK YOU