European Solar Telescope

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a revolutionary project aimed at the design, construction and operation of a 4-meter class solar telescope, to be located in the Canary Islands, and which formally entered the active project list of the ESFRI roadmap in March 2016 as the flagship project for the European Solar Physics community. EST is planned to start operations in 2025 for a period of 30 years.

This is an initiative of the European Association for Solar Telescopes (EAST), constituted by partners from 15 European Member States, aiming to ensure access of European solar astronomers to world-class high-resolution ground-based observing facilities