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BBSO | KSO| CAO| Meudon | Pic du Midi | YNAO | HSOS | MLSO | USETBIG BEAR SOLAR OBSERVATORY
| Address: | Big Bear Solar Observatory 40386 North Shore Lane Big Bear City, CA 92314-9672 USA |
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| Phone: | ++ 909 866-5791 |
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| Fax: | ++ 909 866-5791 ext 24 (Office) ++ 909 866-4240 (Dome) |
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| URL: |
www.bbso.njit.edu |
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| Location: | 116° 54.9' W 34° 15.2' N 2067 m |
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| Big Bear Solar Observatory exploits the excellent climatic conditions of Big Bear Lake to study the Sun. It is located in the middle of Big Bear Lake to reduce the image distortion which usually occurs when the Sun heats the ground. Turbulent motions in the air near the observatory are also reduced by the smooth flow of the wind across the lake. These conditions, combined with the usually cloudless skies and the clarity of the air at 2000 meters elevation, make the observatory a premier site for solar observations. The observatory was built by the Californian Institute of Technology in 1969 and was transferred to the New Jersey Institute of Technology on 1 July 1997. | ||
KANZELHÖHE SOLAR OBSERVATORY
| Address: | Kanzelhöhe Solar Observatory A-9521 Treffen Austria |
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| Phone: | ++43 4248 2717 |
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| Fax: | ++43 4248 2717 ext 15 |
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| URL: |
www.kso.ac.at |
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| Location: | 13° 54.4' E 46° 40.7' N 1526 m |
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| Kanzelhöhe Solar Observatory is the only solar observatory in Austria and is operated by the Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology of Graz University. Because of the favorable climate and the convenience of year-around access via a cable railway, the observatory was built near Villach (Carinthia) in 1943. Another advantage of KSO is the permanent presence of staff and consequently a continuous operation throughout the year. | ||
CATANIA ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY
| Address: | Catania Astrophysical Observatory Via S. Sofia, 78 - Città Universitaria 95123 Catania, Italy |
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| Phone: | +39 095 9332-111 |
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| Fax: | +39 095 330592 |
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| URL: |
www.ct.astro.it |
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| Location: | 1h00m17.4s E 37° 31' N 193 m |
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| The Catania Astrophysical Observatory (OACt) is a research institute and is part of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). OACt has two different sites, where also researches of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (DPA) of the Catania University work. The main site is in the Catania University Campus ( Città Universitaria), where solar observations are peformed. The second site is mountain station M.G. Fracastoro , which is used for night observations. The station is located on the southern slope of Mt. Etna (3340 m) - the largest active volcano in Europe. The geographical location of Catania - a sunny town in Southern Italy (Sicily) - has made possible an almost 100-year long uninterrupted patrol of solar activity. | ||
OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS, SECTION DE MEUDON
| Address: | Observatoire de Paris Section de Meudon Place Jules Janssen 92195 MEUDON FRANCE |
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| Phone: | +33 - 145077530 |
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| Fax: | +33 - 145077959 |
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| URL: | www.obspm.fr bass2000.obspm.fr |
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| Location: | South-West of Paris, +48°48' (North) -02°14' (East) 165 meters |
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| Meudon Observatory was
funded in 1876 by famous astronomer Jules Janssen. It merged
with Paris Observatory (previously funded in 1667 by King Louis
XIV) in 1926. Meudon was initially a solar observatory nut
nowadays it is a large observatory (200 researchers), which
researches in almost all topics of astronomy and astrophysics.
Regular observations of the sun began around 1910 with the
spectroheliograph of Deslandres, a new technique which was
tested by Hale in the US at the same time. Our observations are
made with a modern version of the spectroheliograph. Despite the
oceanic climate of Meudon, we succeed to get images of the sun
almost 300 days per year, very often between two clouds! The
seeing is in average around 2 arc sec. |
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OBSERVATOIRE DE MIDI/PYRÉNÉES
| Address: | Observatoire du Pic du Midi Observatoire Midi Pyrénées 57 avenue d'Azereix 65000 Tarbes FRANCE |
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| Office Phone: | +33 5 62 56 60 29 |
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| Dome Phone: | +33 5 62 53 31 11 |
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| Fax: | +33 5 62 34 67 33 |
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| URL: | www.obs-mip.fr www.climso.fr |
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| Location: | South-West of Paris, 42°56'11'' (North) 0°08'34'' (East) 2877 meters |
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| Pic du Midi
Observatory is a part of Observatoire Midi Pyrénées which is a
research and educational institute of Paul Sabatier University
(Toulouse, France). Pic du Midi is a mountain station (2877m)
which is well placed for clear sky and good seeing atmospheric
conditions. Solar observations are performed with a 50 cm
refractor, "Lunette Jean Rösch", and several coronagraphs. A
daily survey of the dynamical phenomena appeared in the inner
part of the solar corona and in the chromospheric layers is made
with the new solar instrument CLIMSO. |
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YUNNAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY
| Address: | Yunnan Astronomical Observatory P.O. Box 110 Kunming 650011 P.R. China |
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| Phone: | ++ 871 3347085 |
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| Fax: | ++ 871 3358437 |
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| URL: |
http://159.226.148.131/index.html YNAO SOLAR GROUP |
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| Location: | 102° 47.3' E 25° 1.5' N 1940 m |
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| Yunnan Astronomical Observatory is one of the five astronomical observatories in China, all operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is located in the suburban of Kunming City in the southern part of China. It has the best weather conditions of all Chinese observatted in the suburban of Kunming City in the southern part of China. It has the best weather conditions of all Chinese observatories, with about 300 clear days a year and excellent sky transparency. | ||
HUAIROU SOLAR OBSERVING STATION
| Address: | Huairou Solar Observing Station National Astronomical Observatories 20A, Datun Rd., Chaoyang Dist. Beijing 100012 P.R. China |
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| Phone: | +86-10-64888769; +86-10-69644338 |
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| Address: | Mauna Loa Solar Observatory P.O. Box 425 Hilo, HI 96721-0425 USA |
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| Phone: | ++808 935-0533 |
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| Fax: | ++303 497-1589(High Altitude Observatory) |
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| URL: |
http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu (for ALL PICS, CHIP, MK4, MK3 and SMM data) http://lasp.colorado.edu/pspt_access (for PSPT data) |
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| Location: | 155°34.8' W 19°32.4' N 3440 m (altitude) |
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| The Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) was built in 1965 by the High Altitude Observatory, a division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Mauna Loa skies are dark, contain very little water vapor and there are very few cloudy days, making it an ideal site for observing the Sun and the solar corona in particular. MLSO is operated 365 days a year for 9.5 hours per day (weather permitting). Observations are generally acquired between 17:00 UT and 02:30 UT. Halpha observations are acquired 325 days per year (on average). Four instruments are operated at MLSO: 1) PICS: Halpha full disk and occulted (1997 to present) 2) CHIP: Helium-I full disk (1996 to present) 3) MK4/MK3: White light corona (1.12 to 2.9 Rsun) (1980 to present) 4) PSPT: CaIIK and photospheric red and blue continuum full disk (1998 to present) | ||
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62 m (altitude)
MAUNA LOA SOLAR OBSERVATORY
| Address: | Mauna Loa Solar Observatory P.O. Box 425 Hilo, HI 96721-0425 USA |
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| Phone: | ++808 935-0533 |
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| Fax: | ++303 497-1589(High Altitude Observatory) |
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| URL: |
http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu (for ALL PICS, CHIP, MK4, MK3 and SMM data) http://lasp.colorado.edu/pspt_access (for PSPT data) |
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| Location: | 155°34.8' W 19°32.4' N 3440 m (altitude) |
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| The Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) was built in 1965 by the High Altitude Observatory, a division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Mauna Loa skies are dark, contain very little water vapor and there are very few cloudy days, making it an ideal site for observing the Sun and the solar corona in particular. MLSO is operated 365 days a year for 9.5 hours per day (weather permitting). Observations are generally acquired between 17:00 UT and 02:30 UT. Halpha observations are acquired 325 days per year (on average). Four instruments are operated at MLSO: 1) PICS: Halpha full disk and occulted (1997 to present) 2) CHIP: Helium-I full disk (1996 to present) 3) MK4/MK3: White light corona (1.12 to 2.9 Rsun) (1980 to present) 4) PSPT: CaIIK and photospheric red and blue continuum full disk (1998 to present) | ||
Uccle Solar Equatorial Table
| Address: | Observatoire Royal de Belgique – Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van Belgïe 3, avenue Circulaire B-1180 Bruxelles Belgium |
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| Phone: | ++32-2-3730211 |
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| Fax: | ++32-2-3749822 |
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| URL: |
http://www.sidc.be/uset |
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| Location: | 4° 21.55' E 50° 47.87' N 107 m (altitude) |
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| The Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) is a Federal Research Institute located in the southern suburbs of Brussels. Within the ROB, the Solar Influences Data analysis Center (SIDC) hosts two international solar data centers (IAU World Data Center “Sunspots”, ISES Regional Warning Center – Brussels) and participates to multiple space programs (SOHO, STEREO, SDO, PROBA2). It also runs two ground-based facilities for radio and optical monitoring of solar activity. The optical facility (USET) is located within the ROB buildings, allowing easy operation of the instruments and the real-time processing and diffusion of the solar data, in support to the operational space-weather services. | ||
