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Solar telescope

Index Solar telescope

A solar telescope is a special purpose telescope used to observe the Sun. [1]

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Amateur astronomy

Amateur astronomy is a hobby whose participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes.

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Astronomical filter

An astronomical filter is a telescope accessory consisting of an optical filter used by amateur astronomers to simply enhance the details of celestial objects (much as with amateur photography).

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Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is an American scientific and educational organization, founded in San Francisco on February 7, 1889.

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Axion

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle postulated by the Peccei–Quinn theory in 1977 to resolve the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

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Brady Haran

Brady John Haran (born 18 June 1976) is an Australian-born British independent filmmaker and video journalist who is known for his educational videos and documentary films produced for BBC News and his YouTube channels, the most notable being Periodic Videos and Numberphile.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Islas Canarias) is a Spanish archipelago and autonomous community of Spain located in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Morocco at the closest point.

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CERN Axion Solar Telescope

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is an experiment in astroparticle physics to search for axions originating from the Sun.

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Convection

Convection is the heat transfer due to bulk movement of molecules within fluids such as gases and liquids, including molten rock (rheid).

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Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

The National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), known as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) until 2013, is a large solar telescope managed by the National Solar Observatory, that is currently under construction.

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Dutch Open Telescope

The Dutch Open Telescope (DOT) is an optical solar telescope located on Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma (near the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope).

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Einstein Tower

The Einstein Tower (German: Einsteinturm) is an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany built by architect Erich Mendelsohn.

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European Solar Telescope

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a pan-European project to build a next-generation 4-metre class solar telescope, to be located in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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Focal length

The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light.

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GREGOR Solar Telescope

GREGOR is a solar telescope (equipped with a 1.5 m primary mirror produced out of the zero-expansion material Zerodur by the company SCHOTT AG) located at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

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Heliostat

A heliostat (from helios, the Greek word for sun, and stat, as in stationary) is a device that includes a mirror, usually a plane mirror, which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky.

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Helium

Helium (from lit) is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2.

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Herschel wedge

A Herschel wedge or Herschel prism is an optical prism used in solar observation to refract most of the light out of the optical path, allowing safe visual observation.

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La Palma

La Palma, also San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands, Spain.

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Leoncito Astronomical Complex

The El Leoncito Astronomical Complex (Spanish: Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito - CASLEO) is an astronomical observatory in the San Juan Province of Argentina.

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List of solar telescopes

List of solar telescopes sorted by default by year of completion, with newer telescopes higher up.

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List of telescope types

The following are lists of devices categorized as types of telescopes or devices associated with telescopes.

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McMath–Hulbert Observatory

The McMath-Hulbert Solar Observatory is a solar observatory in Lake Angelus, Michigan, USA.

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McMath–Pierce solar telescope

McMath–Pierce solar telescope is a 1.6 m f/54 reflecting solar telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, United States.

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Mount Wilson Observatory

The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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MSSTA

The Multi-spectral solar telescope array, or MSSTA, was a sounding rocket payload built by Professor A.B.C. Walker, Jr. at Stanford University in the 1990s to test EUV/XUV imaging of the Sun using normal incidence EUV-reflective multilayer optics.

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National Large Solar Telescope

The National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) is a Gregorian multi-purpose open telescopeHasan, S. S. The Indian National Large Solar Telescope proposed to be built in Merak village in Ladakh in India and aims to study the sun's microscopic structure.

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Optical filter

An optical filter is a device that selectively transmits light of different wavelengths, usually implemented as a glass plane or plastic device in the optical path, which are either dyed in the bulk or have interference coatings.

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Radio Solar Telescope Network

The Radio Solar Telescope Network (RSTN) is a network of solar observatories maintained and operated by the 557th Weather Wing, ACC.

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Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope

The Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope is a unique vertical-axis solar telescope, located at the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico.

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Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of Garafía on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.

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Scholarpedia

Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia with features commonly associated with open-access online academic journals, which aims to have quality content.

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Spectrohelioscope

A spectrohelioscope is a type of solar telescope designed by George Ellery Hale in 1924 to allow the Sun to be viewed in a selected wavelength of light.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Swedish Solar Telescope

The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (or SST) is a refracting solar telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma in the Canary Islands.

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Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope

The Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope was a 47.5 cm solar telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands.

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Teide Observatory

Teide Observatory (Observatorio del Teide), IAU code 954, is an astronomical observatory on Mount Teide at, located on Tenerife, Spain.

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Telescope

A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).

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Turbulence

In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is any pattern of fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity.

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Vacuum

Vacuum is space devoid of matter.

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Vacuum Tower Telescope

The Vacuum Tower Telescope is an evacuated-optics solar telescope located at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

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Visible spectrum

The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.

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557th Weather Wing

The 557th Weather Wing is a United States Air Force formation and its lead military meteorology center.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_telescope

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