Tuorla Observatory blazar monitoring

Optical light curves


Main characteristics


Data policy

The lightcurves shown on these pages are intended as a quick-look service for our monitoring group and for the MAGIC consortium. They are made public here to aid multiwavelength campaigns, which sometimes require quick response times. If you want to use some of the data for a publication, please do not extract the data from the images. Contact us and ask for the possibility of getting the data you need.

Data reduction procedure and intrepretation for ten (2002-2012) years of R-band monitoring data for 31 northern sky blazars are available at K. Nilsson et al. (2018, A&A, 620, 185). The main properties of the targets and observing log are available at: Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (CDS-Vizier)


Manuals and useful links

KVA Operation Manual (password protected)
KVA Maintenance Manual (password protected)
Coordinated observations (password protected)
Sunset and sunrise time
KVA twilights (La Palma local time)
NOT weather page
GTC Sky camera
Summary of weather information in ORM
Location of telescopes at ORM


Light curves

Updated Fri Sep 29 12:25:53 PM EEST 2023

FERMI bright targets (password protected)

TeV blazars and AGNs

Name Finding chart Lightcurve Obs epochs
(last 100 days)
Days since
last observation
1ES 0033+595 Find Mag Jy 2
S2 0109+22 Find Mag Jy 5
RGB 0136+391 Find Mag Jy 1
RGB 0214+517 Find Mag Jy 5
B2 0218+35 Find Mag Jy 5
3C 66A Find Mag Jy 5
1ES 0229+200 Find Mag Jy 5
NGC 1275 Find Mag Jy 272
HB89 0317+185 Find Mag Jy 5
1ES 0414+009 Find Mag Jy 1
1ES 0502+675 Find Mag Jy 5
TXS 0506+056 Find Mag Jy 4
VER 0521+211 Find Mag Jy 4
VER 0648+151 Find Mag Jy 3
1ES 0647+250 Find Mag Jy 3
RGB 0710+591 Find Mag Jy 4
S5 0716+714 Find Mag Jy 1
NVSS J073326+515355 Find Mag Jy 3
1ES 0806+524 Find Mag Jy 3
RGB 0847+115 Find Mag Jy 142
OJ 287 Find Mag Jy 3
S4 0954+65 Find Mag Jy 3
1ES 1011+496 Find Mag Jy 3
RX J1058.5+2817 Find Mag Jy 150
Mkn 421 Find Mag Jy 139
Mkn 180 Find Mag Jy 5
RGB 1136+676 Find Mag Jy 3
4C 29.45 Find Mag Jy 142
ON 325 Find Mag Jy 143
1ES 1218+304 Find Mag Jy 135
ON 231 Find Mag Jy 147
MS 1221.8+2452 Find Mag Jy 89
ON 238 Find Mag Jy 135
ON 246 Find Mag Jy 89
3C 279 Find Mag Jy 126
PKS 1413+135 Find Mag Jy 59
B2 1420+32 Find Mag Jy 23
PG 1424+240 Find Mag Jy 45
1ES 1426+428 Find Mag Jy 21
1ES 1440+122 Find Mag Jy 46
PKS 1441+25 Find Mag Jy 24
PKS 1510-089 Find Mag Jy 118
AP Lib Find Mag Jy 1480
TXS 1515-273 Find Mag Jy 1498
PG 1553+113 Find Mag Jy 22
Mkn 501 Find Mag Jy 5
H 1722+119 Find Mag Jy 21
OT 546 Find Mag Jy 3
1ES 1741+196 Find Mag Jy 2
HB89 1749+096 Find Mag Jy 2
B2 1811+31 Find Mag Jy 3
1ES 1959+650 Find Mag Jy 3
MG4 J200112+4352 Find Mag Jy 3
1ES 2037+521 Find Mag Jy 5
PKS 2155-304 Find Mag Jy 1381
BL Lac Find Mag Jy 3
RGB J2243+203 Find Mag Jy 4
B3 2247+381 Find Mag Jy 1
1ES 2344+514 Find Mag Jy 2

Other blazars and AGN

Name Finding chart Lightcurve Obs epochs
(last 100 days)
Days since
last observation
BZB J0022+0006 Find Mag Jy 6
RX J00352+1515 Find Mag Jy 2
B3 0037+405 Find Mag Jy 6
PKS 0047-051 Find Mag Jy 6
4C+31.03 Find Mag Jy 6
MS 0158.5+0019 Find Mag Jy 6
CGRaBS J0211+1051 Find Mag Jy 6
B2 0234+28 Find Mag Jy 5
AO 0235+164 Find Mag Jy 5
PKS 0256+075 Find Mag Jy 5
PKS 0310+013 Find Mag Jy 6
RX J03384+1302 Find Mag Jy 6
RGB 0505+612 Find Mag Jy 5
B2 0716+33 Find Mag Jy 3
PKS 0735+178 Find Mag Jy 3
CRATES J0905+1358 Find Mag Jy 135
RX J1022.7-0112 Find Mag Jy 135
RBS 0921 Find Mag Jy 138
RBS 0970 Find Mag Jy 139
CRATES J1209+1810 Find Mag Jy 135
TON 116 Find Mag Jy 65
PG 1246+586 Find Mag Jy 38
S4 1250+53 Find Mag Jy 53
B2 1348+308 Find Mag Jy 45
PKS 1406-076 Find Mag Jy 136
3FHL J1418.4-0233 Find Mag Jy 278
RBS 1409 Find Mag Jy 4
PKS 1502+106 Find Mag Jy 57
3FHL J1511.8-0513 Find Mag Jy 107
BZQ J1514+4450 Find Mag Jy 21
3FHL J1520.7-0348 Find Mag Jy 59
1ES 1544+820 Find Mag Jy 2
3FHL J1546.1+0818 Find Mag Jy 24
CRATES J1558+5625 Find Mag Jy 2
FGL 1656+6012 Find Mag Jy 4
RGB J1754+322 Find Mag Jy 2
GB6 J1838+4802 Find Mag Jy 3
GB6 B1842+1543 Find Mag Jy 324
RGB 1903+556 Find Mag Jy 5
3FHL J1942.7+1033 Find Mag Jy 305
RGB J2232+117 Find Mag Jy 5
TXS 2241+406 Find Mag Jy 6
PKS 2247-131 Find Mag Jy 7
3C 454.3 Find Mag Jy 5

FERMI bright targets (password protected)

Background picture credit : Rami Rekola 2001