Directory of Observatories Resources

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• Big Bear Solar Observatory

  http://www.bbso.njit.edu/
  The BBSO is operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

• Catania Astrophysical Observatory

  http://www.ct.astro.it/
  General information, meetings, events, and staff.

• Cracow Observatory - Solar Radio Emission

  http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/sol/
  Contains daily data on radio emissions.

• Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)

  http://gong.nso.edu/
  Offers science data and project descriptions of a Helioseimology observation network.

• High Altitude Observatory Homepage

  http://www.hao.ucar.edu/
  High Altitude Observatory (HAO) is dedicated to the study of the Sun and of the response of the Earth's upper atmosphere to the Sun's output.

• IPS Culgoora Solar Observatory

  http://www.ips.gov.au/Main.php?CatID=5&SecID=2&SecName=Culgoora+Observatory&SubSecID=1&SubSecName=Overview
  The Culgoora Solar Observatory is located 25 km west of the town of Narrabri, in north-west New South Wales. The observatory conducts continuous optical and radio observations of the sun every day of the year.

• Kiepenheuer Solar Physics Institute

  http://www.kis.uni-freiburg.de/
  Offers overview of research projects by a German institute and solar observations made with their vacuum tower telescope in Tenerife, Spain.

• MLSO Analysis Homepage

  http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu/
  Mauna Loa Solar Observatory

• National Solar Observatory

  http://nsokp.nso.edu/
  National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak

• Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope

  http://nsosp.nso.edu/dst/
  Specializes in solar high resolution imaging and spectroscopy.

• Solar Group of RATAN-600

  http://www.sao.ru/hq/sun/
  Part of Russian Special Astrophysical Group located in the Caucasus mountains of Karachaevo-Cherkesia.

• The 60-Foot Solar Tower

  http://physics1.usc.edu/solar/
  The HiDHN project is a network of two sites whose primary purpose is to study the high order oscillations of the sun in the narrow sodium D-line wavelengths. The two sites, Mt. Wilson Observatory, above the city of Pasadena in California and the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO)(US mirror site) in the Ukraine, study solar oscillations to develop a model of the internal structure of the sun(HiDHN)

• The National Solar Observatory

  http://www.nso.edu/
  Science projects, outreach and images from US facilities.

• The San Fernando Observatory

  http://www.csun.edu/sfo/
  Operated by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at California State University, the San Fernando Observatory is a state of the art Solar Observatory and the primary astronomical research tool of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

• The solar telescope THÉMIS

  http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/people/paletou/Themis/
  THÉMIS [Heliographic Telescope for the Study of the Magnetism and Instabilities on the Sun] is a new generation solar telescope built by the INSU/CNRS (France) and the CNR (Italy) agencies. The telescope is installed at the International Observatory of the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Spain) which is operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

• UCO/Lick Observatory

  http://www.ucolick.org/
  Operates on behalf of the astronomers at all ten UC campuses and is comprised of extensive technical facilities, a business office, telescope and support facilities at the Lick Observatory on Mt Hamilton and a staff of astronomers.

• Wilcox Solar Observatory

  http://wso.stanford.edu/
  Offers observations for space weather and magnetic field maps.

• Yohkoh Public Outreach Project

  http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/
  Solar educational resources from the Yohkoh X-ray telescope space mission. Includes images, movies, educational resources, and a "tour" of the Sun.

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