Calar Alto observatory gets a new exo-planet searcher gizmo Posted on May 9, 2014 by David — No Comments ↓ It’s called Carmenes, which stands for Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-earhts with Near-infrared and optical Echelle Spectrographs. Wow. Spelling mistakes from the original Spanish article in “La Voz de Almería” by the way.