SPECULOOS-North is the Northern counterpart of SPECULOOS-South. It is located at Teide Observatory in the island of Tenerife (Canaries).
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t consists to date of the only robotic telescope Artemis, twin of the SPECULOOS-South telescopes. The inauguration of Artemis took place on June 20, 2019. It will soon be joined by a second telescope named Orion.
SPECULOOS-North is operated by a consortium including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Liège.
Artemis was funded by the generous support of MIT donors Peter A. Gilman, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and Colin and Leslie Masson, with additional support from the Ministry of Higher Education of the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, and the Balzan Foundation.
