A solar observing station for education and research in Peru
Abstract
Since 1937 Carnegie Institution of Washington made observations of active regions of the Sun with a Hale type spectro-helioscope in Huancayo observatory of the Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP). IGP has contributed significantly to geophysical and solar sciences in the last 69 years. Now IGP and the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional San Luis Gonzaga de Ica (UNICA) are planning to refurbish the coelostat at the observatory with the support of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. It is also planned to install a solar Flare Monitor Telescope (FMT) at UNICA, from Hida observatory of Kyoto University. Along with the coelostat, the FMT will be useful to improve scientific research and education.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India
- Pub Date:
- December 2007
- Bibcode:
- 2007BASI...35..709K
- Keywords:
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- magnetic field;
- methods: observational;
- techniques: spectroscopic;
- Sun: flares;
- sunspots;
- solar-terrestrial relations