Fig. 1: The distribution of the observatories around the globe.
The following is a list of all known ground-based solar observatories that operate on a routine basis to obtain scientific observations of the sun. The observatories are sorted according to longitude, from east to west. There 100 observatories on the list and 180 separate "instruments". Please send any corrections or updates to kreardon@arcetri.astro.it. For a less detailed listing of the observatories, click here.
| # 1 | ||||
| URL: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/sites/narrabri/narrabri.html | ||||
| Location: Narrabri, Australia | Longitude: 149.8 E | Latitude: 30.30 S | ||
| Telescope: BiSON site | Description: integrated sunlight | |||
| Instrument: | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: IRIS Site | Description: Integrated intensity and velocity | |||
| Instrument: Sodium resonance cell | Data Type: | |||
| # 2 | Culgoora Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.ips.gov.au/culgoora/ | ||||
| Location: Culgoora, Australia | Longitude: 149.6 E | Latitude: 30.30 S | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: 12cm refractor | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: 18MHz - 1.8GHz | |||
| Instrument: radiospectrograph | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 3 | ||||
| URL: http://fourier.phys.utas.edu.au/birs/index.html | ||||
| Location: Bruny Island, Australia | Longitude: 147.2 E | Latitude: 42.40 S | ||
| Telescope: | Description: 3 - 45 MHz | |||
| Instrument: Radio Spectrometer | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 4 | Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center | |||
| URL: http://sunbase.crl.go.jp/home.html | ||||
| Location: Japan | Longitude: 140.6 E | Latitude: 36.4 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full-disk and high-resolution H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: 15 cm refractor | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: full-disk white-light | |||
| Instrument: refractor | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Hiraiso Radio Spectrograph | Description: 25-2500 MHz | |||
| Instrument: Hiraiso Radio Spectrograph | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 5 | National Astronomical Observatory, | |||
| URL: http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/ | ||||
| Location: Mitaka, Japan | Longitude: 139.6 E | Latitude: 36.1 N | ||
| Telescope: Solar Flare Telescope | Description: vector magnetic field, velocity, white-light, H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: Solar Flare Telescope | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: STEP | Description: full-disk magnetic field and velocity | |||
| Instrument: STEP 6.5 cm heliostat/refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: full-disk white-light | |||
| Instrument: 10 cm refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: H-alpha flare-patrol | |||
| Instrument: 4 cm refractor | Data Type: | |||
| # 6 | Nobeyama Solar Radio Observatory | |||
| URL: http://solar.nro.nao.ac.jp/norh/index.html | ||||
| Location: Japan | Longitude: 138.2 E | Latitude: 36.4 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full-disk images (17GHz, 10'', intensity + circular polarization: 34 GHz, 5'', intensity) | |||
| Instrument: Radioheliograph, 84 antennas | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: | Description: total solar flux, circular polarization, 1 - 80 GHz | |||
| Instrument: Radio Polarimeters, | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: | |||
| Instrument: Spectrometers (meter-waves) | Data Type: | |||
| # 7 | Norikura Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/en/norikura.html | ||||
| Location: Japan | Longitude: 137.6 E | Latitude: 36.1 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: 530.3 nm, H-alpha, D3, He 1083.0 nm, continuum | |||
| Instrument: 3 coronagraph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 8 | Hida Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/Hida/Hida-e.html | ||||
| Location: Japan | Longitude: 137.4 E | Latitude: 36.3 N | ||
| Telescope: Domeless Solar Telescope | Description: | |||
| Instrument: 60 cm Domeless Solar Telescope | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Flare Monitor Telescope | Description: full-disk H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: Flare Monitor Telescope | Data Type: | |||
| # 9 | Okayama Astrophysical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/en/okayama.html | ||||
| Location: Japan | Longitude: 133.6 E | Latitude: 34.6 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: vector magnetic field (FOV 400 x 400'', 6'' res.) | |||
| Instrument: 65 cm coude reflector | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 10 | Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.boao.re.kr/~yjmoon/softmain.html | ||||
| Location: South Korea | Longitude: 128.9 E | Latitude: 9.2 N | ||
| Telescope: SOlar Flare Telescope (SOFT) | Description: White-Light, H-alpha, Vector Magnetic Field, Longitudinal Magnetic Field | |||
| Instrument: SOlar Flare Telescope (SOFT) 20 cm x 2, 15 cm x 2 | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 11 | Huairou Solar Observing Station, Beijing Astronomical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://sun.bao.ac.cn/ | ||||
| Location: Huairou, China | Longitude: 116.6 E | Latitude: 40.4 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: CaII, HeII, MgI, FeI (4), HeI, and H-alpha, 5' x 4' | |||
| Instrument: 60 cm 9-channel Gregorian Reflector | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Solar Magnetic Field Telescope | Description: Magnetic Field - FeI, H - 3.75'x5.45' | |||
| Instrument: 35 cm vacuum refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: Full-Disk Vector Magnetograph | Description: Full-Disk Vector Magnetograph | |||
| Instrument: 10 cm refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: Full-Disk and High-resolution (10' x 8') H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: 14 cm Refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: Full-Disk CaII K | |||
| Instrument: 8 cm Refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: TON Site | Description: Full-Disk CaII K images | |||
| Instrument: 9 cm reflector | Data Type: | |||
| # 12 | Learmonth Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.ips.gov.au/learmonth/ | ||||
| Location: Australia | Longitude: 114.60 E | Latitude: 22.12 S | ||
| Telescope: SOON site (Solar Observing Optical Network) | Description: full disk and high-resolution H-alpha, white-light + magnetogr. | |||
| Instrument: SOON site (Solar Observing Optical Network) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: GONG Site | Description: full intensity and magnetic field | |||
| Instrument: GONG Site | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: RSTN (Radio Solar Telescope Network) | Description: flux@0.2,0.4,1.4,2.7,5.0,8.8,15GHz | |||
| Instrument: RIMS (Radio Interference Monitoring Sets) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: RSTN | Description: Sweep Frequency Interferometer (25-75MHz) | |||
| Instrument: SFIR (Sweep Frequency Interferometric Radiometer) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 13 | ||||
| URL: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/sites/carnarvon/carnarvon.html | ||||
| Location: Carnarvon, Australia | Longitude: 113.8 E | Latitude: 24.9 S | ||
| Telescope: BiSON Site | Description: integrated sunlight | |||
| Instrument: BiSON Site | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 14 | Baikal Astrophysical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.iszf.irk.ru:8101/obs/bao/bao.html | ||||
| Location: Russia | Longitude: 105.0 E | Latitude: 54.8 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full-disk H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: 18 cm refractor | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: full-disk CaII K | |||
| Instrument: 18 cm refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: high res. H-alpha images (9 arcminute field) | |||
| Instrument: 25.5 cm refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: Large Solar Vacuum Telescope (LSVT) | Description: high-resolution observations | |||
| Instrument: Large Solar Vacuum Telescope (LSVT) 76 cm refractor | Data Type: | |||
| # 15 | Radioastrophysical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://ssrt.iszf.irk.ru/index.shtml | ||||
| Location: Siberia, Russia | Longitude: 103.2 E | Latitude: 51.8 N | ||
| Telescope: SSRT? | Description: full-disk images at 5.2cm, 1-D scans | |||
| Instrument: 256-dish radio interferometer | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 16 | Yunnan Astronomical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://cosmos.ynao.ac.cn/ | ||||
| Location: China | Longitude: 102.8 E | Latitude: 25.0 N | ||
| Telescope: Phoenix I Corona-Radiospectrograph | Description: single freq. total intensity at 1.42, 2.13, 2.84, 4.26GHz | |||
| Instrument: Phoenix I Corona-Radiospectr. (no spatial, high time resol.) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: Solar Vacuum Telescope | Description: high res. H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: Solar Vacuum Tel.(26cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Solar Spectral Telescope | Description: | |||
| Instrument: Solar Spectral Tel.(50cm) | Data Type: | |||
| # 17 | Sayan Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.iszf.irk.ru:8101/obs/sso/sso.html | ||||
| Location: Irkutsk, Russia | Longitude: 100.8 E | Latitude: 51.6 N | ||
| Telescope: STOP | Description: full-disk magnetograms (10'' resolution) vector magnetograms (4'' resolution) | |||
| Instrument: magnetograph (STOP) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk H images | |||
| Instrument: 180mm refractor | Data Type: | |||
| # 18 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Alma-Ata, Russia | Longitude: 76.9 E | Latitude: 43.3 N | ||
| Telescope: OPTON refractor | Description: H + Ca K filtergrams | |||
| Instrument: OPTON refract. | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: corona | |||
| Instrument: coronagraph | Data Type: | |||
| # 19 | National Centre for Radio Astrophysics | |||
| URL: http://www.gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/ | ||||
| Location: Pune, India | Longitude: 74.05 E | Latitude: 19.1 N | ||
| Telescope: Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) | Description: 1 antenna dynamic spectr. | |||
| Instrument: 30 antenna array (150-1420 Mhz) 45 meter parabolic dishes | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 20 | Udaipur Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.prl.ernet.in/~sushant/uso/ | ||||
| Location: Udaipur, India | Longitude: 73.71 E | Latitude: 24.59 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: H-alpha full disk | |||
| Instrument: 15cm refractor | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: high resolution H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: 25cm refractor | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: active regions | |||
| Instrument: 15 cm Coude telescope | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: GONG Site | Description: helioseismology | |||
| Instrument: 2.8 cm telescope | Data Type: | |||
| # 21 | Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Parkent, Uzbekistan | Longitude: 69.97 E | Latitude: 41.47 N | ||
| Telescope: IRIS Site | Description: Integrated intensity and velocity | |||
| Instrument: | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 22 | ||||
| URL: http://www.astrin.uzsci.net/ | ||||
| Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan | Longitude: 69.29 E | Latitude: 41.325 | ||
| Telescope: TON Site | Description: Full-Disk CaII K images | |||
| Instrument: 9 cm reflector | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 23 | Special Asrophysical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.sao.ru/~sun/ | ||||
| Location: Zelenchukskaya, North Caucasus, Russia | Longitude: 41.59 E | Latitude: 43.83 N | ||
| Telescope: RATAN 600 | Description: 0.9 - 18 Ghz one dimensional scans with circular polarization | |||
| Instrument: Radiotelescope | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 24 | Pulkovo Observatory | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Kislovodsk, Russia | Longitude: 43.7 E | Latitude: 43.9 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: 5303, 5694, 6374, 10747, 10798 and H images | |||
| Instrument: 3coronagraphs(53,20,10cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Solar Tower Telescope | Description: Ca K spectroheliograms | |||
| Instrument: Solar Tower Telescope (30cm) | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: chromospheric telescope (OPTON) | Description: full disk WL and H images | |||
| Instrument: chromospheric telescope (OPTON) | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: radio flux at .6, .8, 2, 3, 5cm | |||
| Instrument: several radio dishes (1-4m) | Data Type: | |||
| # 25 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Abastumani, Georgia | Longitude: 42.7 E | Latitude: 41.7 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk WL, H, CaK | |||
| Instrument: several refractors | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 26 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Izmiran, Russia | Longitude: 37.7 E | Latitude: 55.8 N | ||
| Telescope: chromospheric telescope (OPTON) | Description: H images (disk) | |||
| Instrument: chromospheric telescope (OPTON) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: H and Ca K images (limb) | |||
| Instrument: coronagraph (53cm) | Data Type: | |||
| # 27 | Solar Radio Laboratory (LaRS) | |||
| URL: http://helios.izmiran.rssi.ru/lars/LARS.html | ||||
| Location: Izmiran, Russia | Longitude: 37.32 E | Latitude: 55.47 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: 169, 204, 3000 Mhz, 1 sec resolution | |||
| Instrument: Radiometer | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: | Description: 25 - 270 Mhz, 40 / 20 msec resolution | |||
| Instrument: radiospectrograph | Data Type: | |||
| # 28 | Kharkov Astronomical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/astron/dslpp/sun/index.html | ||||
| Location: Kharkov, Ukraine | Longitude: 36.23 E | Latitude: 50.00 N | ||
| Telescope: Kharkov Multiwave Station of Solar Monitoring | Description: full disk Ca K, H, He10830 | |||
| Instrument: spectroheliograph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 29 | Crimean Astrophysical Observatory | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Nauchny, Ukraine | Longitude: 34.0 E | Latitude: 44.7 N | ||
| Telescope: Solar Tower Telescope | Description: He 10830 charts | |||
| Instrument: 45cm Solar Tower Tel.(45cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: | |||
| Instrument: coronagraph (53cm) | Data Type: | |||
| # 30 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Katzively, Ukraine | Longitude: 34.0 E | Latitude: 44.7 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: maps + solar flux (0.8-3.5cm) | |||
| Instrument: 2 radio dishes (22 + 3m) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 31 | Kandilli Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/astronomy/astronomy.html/ | ||||
| Location: Kandilli, Turkey | Longitude: 29.1 E | Latitude: 41.1 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk H-alpha + CaK | |||
| Instrument: 2 refractors (15+10cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 32 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Bucuresti, Romania | Longitude: 26.1 E | Latitude: 44.4 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk WL+H images | |||
| Instrument: 2 refractors (13+8cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 33 | Metsähovi Radio Observatory | |||
| URL: http://kurp-www.hut.fi/sun/ | ||||
| Location: Metsähovi, Finland | Longitude: 24.39 E | Latitude: 60.22 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: 10-100 Ghz radio maps | |||
| Instrument: 14m radio telescope | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 34 | National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen | |||
| URL: http://www.astro.bas.bg/ | ||||
| Location: Rozhen, Bulgaria | Longitude: 24.74 E | Latitude: 41.69 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: 5303, 6374 + H images | |||
| Instrument: 20cm coronagr.+chrom.tel. | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 35 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: L'vov, Ukraine | Longitude: 23.9 E | Latitude: 49.8 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk WL+H images | |||
| Instrument: photoheliograph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 36 | Debrecen Observatory | |||
| URL: http://fenyi.sci.klte.hu/~ludmany/deb_obs_en.html | ||||
| Location: Debrecen, Hungary | Longitude: 21.62 E | Latitude: 47.56 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk WL images | |||
| Instrument: 2 refractors (13 + 15cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: H-alpha flare observations | |||
| Instrument: 53cm coronagraph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 37 | South African Astronomical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/new/sutherland.html | ||||
| Location: Sutherland, South Africa | Longitude: 20.81 E | Latitude: 32.38 S | ||
| Telescope: BiSON site | Description: integrated sunlight | |||
| Instrument: BiSON site | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 1990 End Date: Present | Data Availability: | |||
| # 38 | Stara Lesna Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.ta3.sk/ | ||||
| Location: Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic | Longitude: 20.29 E | Latitude: 49.15 N | ||
| Telescope: Horizontal Solar Telescope (50 cm) | Description: | |||
| Instrument: Spectrograph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Double Solar Telescope (20 and 15 cm) | Description: Sunspot observations | |||
| Instrument: | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 39 | Lomnicky Stit Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.ta3.sk/ | ||||
| Location: Slovak Republic | Longitude: 20.22 E | Latitude: 49.20 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: Fe X - XV, Ca XV photometry, H-alpha limb prominences | |||
| Instrument: 20cm coronagraph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 40 | Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University | |||
| URL: http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/ | ||||
| Location: Cracow, Poland | Longitude: 19.83 E | Latitude: 50.05 N | ||
| Telescope: 8-meter antenna | Description: mean fluxes in 10 channels from 275-1755 Mhz, 5 min resolution | |||
| Instrument: radiospectrograph | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 41 | Torun Centre for Astronomy | |||
| URL: http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/ | ||||
| Location: Torun, Poland | Longitude: 18.56 E | Latitude: 53.10 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: daily mean flux at 127MHz | |||
| Instrument: E-W radio interferometer | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 42 | San Vito Air Station | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: San Vito, Italy | Longitude: 17.43 E | Latitude: 40.40 N | ||
| Telescope: SOON site (Solar Observing Optical Network) | Description: full disk H, WL + magnetogr. | |||
| Instrument: SOON site (Solar Observing Optical Network) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: RSTN (Radio Solar Telescope Network) | Description: flux@0.2,0.4,1.4,2.7,5.0,8.8,15GHz | |||
| Instrument: RIMS (Radio Interference Monitoring Sets) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: RSTN | Description: Sweep Frequency Interferometer (25-75MHz) | |||
| Instrument: SFIR (Sweep Frequency Interferometric Radiometer) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 43 | Wroclaw Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.astro.uni.wroc.pl/ | ||||
| Location: Wroclaw, Poland | Longitude: 17.09 E | Latitude: 51.11 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: H-alpha filtergr. (prominences+AR) | |||
| Instrument: Small Coronagraph (13 cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 44 | Bialków Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.astro.uni.wroc.pl/ | ||||
| Location: Wroclaw, Poland | Longitude: 16.66 E | Latitude: 51.48 N | ||
| Telescope: Large Coronagraph (53 cm) | Description: H-alpha filtergrams and MSDP spectra | |||
| Instrument: MSDP | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Solar Horizonal Telescope | Description: H-alpha filtergrams | |||
| Instrument: | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 45 | Hvar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://hvar.geof.hr/index.html | ||||
| Location: Hvar, Croatia | Longitude: 16.45 E | Latitude: 43.18 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: | |||
| Instrument: refractor | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 46 | Ondrejov Observatory | |||
| URL: http://sunkl.asu.cas.cz/~sunwatch/index.html/ | ||||
| Location: Ondrejov, Czech Republic | Longitude: 14.8 E | Latitude: 49.9 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk WL+H-alpha images | |||
| Instrument: 2 patrol refrac.(7.5+11cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: H prominences | |||
| Instrument: coronagraph (13cm) | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: high res. WL+H-alpha images, | |||
| Instrument: 2 horizontal tel.(23+50cm) | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: magnetograms, Dopplergrams | |||
| Instrument: refractor (20.5cm) | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: radio flux at .24, .54, .88, 3 GHz | |||
| Instrument: 7.5 and 3m radio antenna | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: | Description: radio flux at 1-2 and 2-4.5 GHz | |||
| Instrument: 10 and 3m radio antenna | Data Type: | |||
| # 47 | Astronomical Observatory of Catania | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Catania, Italy | Longitude: 15.1 E | Latitude: 35.5 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: WL+H images (disk&limb;) | |||
| Instrument: refractors (15cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 48 | Kanzelhöhe Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.solobskh.ac.at/ | ||||
| Location: Kanzelhöhe,Austria | Longitude: 14.9 E | Latitude: 46.7 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk WL+H images | |||
| Instrument: 2 refractors (11+10cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 49 | Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.na.astro.it/vamos/ | ||||
| Location: Naples, Italy | Longitude: 14.26 E | Latitude: 40.86 N | ||
| Telescope: VAMOS | Description: Full-Disk intensity and longitudinal magnetic and velocity field atin Postassium 7699 Å | |||
| Instrument: VAMOS | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 1998 End Date: Present | Data Availability: | |||
| # 50 | Trieste Astronomical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://radiosun.ts.astro.it/ | ||||
| Location: Basovizza, Italy | Longitude: 13.8 E | Latitude: 43.7 N | ||
| Telescope: MMSRP | Description: 100-1000MHz radiopolarimeter | |||
| Instrument: mMSRP - 10m parabolic dish | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: DmMSRP | Description: 1-4 Ghz radiopolarimeter | |||
| Instrument: DmMSRP - 3m parabolic dish | Data Type: | |||
| # 51 | Einsteinturm Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://aipsoe.aip.de/soe-e.html | ||||
| Location: Potsdam, Germany | Longitude: 13.1 E | Latitude: 52.4 N | ||
| Telescope: Einsteinturm | Description: | |||
| Instrument: Einsteinturm (60cmCoel.) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: OSRA | Description: burst profiles (40-800MHz), radio flux @42, ..., 775MHz | |||
| Instrument: OSRA: 4 sweep spectrogr.+ 14 single freq. polarimeters | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 52 | Rome Astronomical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.mporzio.astro.it/solare/ | ||||
| Location: Monte Porzio, Rome, Italy | Longitude: 12.45 E | Latitude: 41.92 N | ||
| Telescope: PSPT | Description: Full-disk CaII K and contiunuum | |||
| Instrument: PSPT | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 53 | Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno | |||
| URL: http://www.mnd-umwelttechnik.fh-wiesbaden.de/divers/irsol/shdescr.html | ||||
| Location: Locarno, Switzerland | Longitude: 8.8 E | Latitude: 46.167 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: Spectrograph | |||
| Instrument: 45 cm Gregorian | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 1987 End Date: Present | Data Availability: | |||
| # 54 | ||||
| URL: http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/rapp/catalog/catalog_nf.html#phoenixII | ||||
| Location: Bleien, Switzerland | Longitude: 8.7 E | Latitude: 47.4 N | ||
| Telescope: Phoenix Broadband Spectrometer | Description: 0.1 - 4 GHz | |||
| Instrument: Phoenix Broadband Spectrometer | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 55 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Haute Provence, France | Longitude: 6 E | Latitude: 44 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk H images | |||
| Instrument: heliograph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 56 | Royal Observatory of Belgium | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Brussels, Belgium | Longitude: 5.3 E | Latitude: 50.2 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk maps (408MHz, 5') | |||
| Instrument: radioheliograph (Interf.) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: | Description: 600MHz integrated flux | |||
| Instrument: 10m antenna | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk H + WL images | |||
| Instrument: 2 refractors (12+16cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 57 | Observatory of Paris | |||
| URL: http://mesola.obspm.fr/ | ||||
| Location: Meudon, France | Longitude: 2.3 E | Latitude: 48.8 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk H-alpha + CaK images | |||
| Instrument: helio- + spectroheliograph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 58 | Nanįay Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.obs-nancay.fr/ | ||||
| Location: Nanįay, France | Longitude: 2.2 E | Latitude: 47.4 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: maps (pol.) 150-450MHz | |||
| Instrument: multifreq. radioheliogr. | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 59 | Ebre Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.readysoft.es/observebre/7index.htm | ||||
| Location: Roquetas, Spain | Longitude: 0.49 E | Latitude: 40.82 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: Full-disk white-light images | |||
| Instrument: refractor | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 60 | Observatory of Pic du Midi | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Pic du Midi, France | Longitude: 0.1 E | Latitude: 43.0 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: H limb images (1-2R), He 10830 images (planned) | |||
| Instrument: coronagraph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 61 | Bordeaux Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.observ.u-bordeaux.fr/ | ||||
| Location: Bordeaux, France | Longitude: 0.52 W | Latitude: 44.84 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: Resonance cell velocity measurements | |||
| Instrument: equatorial refractor | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 62 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Oukaïmden, Morrocco | Longitude: 7.5 W | Latitude: 31.25 N | ||
| Telescope: IRIS Site | Description: Integrated intensity and velocity | |||
| Instrument: Sodium resonance cell | Data Type: | |||
| # 63 | Observatório Astronómico da Universidade de Coimbra (OAUC) | |||
| URL: http://www.astro.mat.uc.pt/obsv/index.html | ||||
| Location: Coimbra, Portugal | Longitude: 8.5 W | Latitude: 40.2 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk H-alpha, CaII K, and continuum spectroheliograms | |||
| Instrument: spectroheliograph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 1926 End Date: Present | Data Availability: Film | |||
| # 64 | Prof. Manuel de Barros Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.fc.up.pt/oa | ||||
| Location: Oporto, Portugal | Longitude: 8.59 W | Latitude: 41.11 N | ||
| Telescope: Solar Radio Spectrograph of Porto | Description: | |||
| Instrument: radiospectrograph | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 65 | Kiepenheuer Insitute of Solar Physics | |||
| URL: http://www.kis.uni-freiburg.de/kiswwwe2.html | ||||
| Location: Izaņa, Tenerife, Spain | Longitude: 16.51 W | Latitude: 28.30 N | ||
| Telescope: Vaccum Tower Telescope | Description: Echelle spectrograph, Fabry-Perot Interferometer | |||
| Instrument: VTT(70cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: full-disk H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: | Data Type: | |||
| # 66 | ||||
| URL: http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/research/exp_solar/GCT_text.html | ||||
| Location: Izaņa, Tenerife, Spain | Longitude: 16.51 W | Latitude: 28.30 N | ||
| Telescope: Gregorian Coude Telescope | Description: | |||
| Instrument: GCT(45cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 1984 End Date: May, 2002 | Data Availability: | |||
| # 67 | ||||
| URL: http://www.kis.uni-freiburg.de/GREGOR/index_e.html | ||||
| Location: Izaņa, Tenerife, Spain | Longitude: 16.51 W | Latitude: 28.30 N | ||
| Telescope: GREGOR (150 cm) | Description: | |||
| Instrument: GREGOR (150 cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 68 | THEMIS | |||
| URL: http://www.themis.iac.es/ | ||||
| Location: Izaņa, Tenerife, Spain | Longitude: 16.51 W | Latitude: 28.30 N | ||
| Telescope: THEMIS | Description: Italian Panoramic Monochromator, MSDP, MTR | |||
| Instrument: THEMIS (90cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 69 | Teide Observatory | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Izaņa, Tenerife, Spain | Longitude: 16.51 W | Latitude: 28.30 N | ||
| Telescope: Vacuum Newtonian Telescope (VNT) | Description: | |||
| Instrument: VNT (40cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 70 | Solar Laboratory | |||
| URL: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/new/izana.html | ||||
| Location: Izaņa, Tenerife, Spain | Longitude: 16.51 W | Latitude: 28.30 N | ||
| Telescope: BiSON site | Description: integrated sunlight | |||
| Instrument: BiSON site | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 1975 End Date: Present | Data Availability: | |||
| Telescope: GONG Site | Description: full intensity and magnetic field | |||
| Instrument: 2.8 cm telescope | Data Type: | |||
| Start Date: 17 Feb, 1995 End Date: Present | Data Availability: | |||
| Telescope: TON Site | Description: Full-Disk CaII K images | |||
| Instrument: 9 cm reflector | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: IRIS Site | Description: Integrated intensity and velocity | |||
| Instrument: Sodium resonance cell | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: LOI Site | Description: | |||
| Instrument: LOI Site | Data Type: | |||
| # 71 | Roque de los Muchachos Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.astro.su.se/groups/solar/ | ||||
| Location: RdM, La Palma, Spain | Longitude: 17.88 W | Latitude: 28.76 N | ||
| Telescope: New Swedish Solar Telescope (NSST) | Description: | |||
| Instrument: Swedish Tower (100cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 72 | Roque de los Muchachos Observatory | |||
| URL: http://dot.astro.uu.nl/ | ||||
| Location: RdM, La Palm, Spaina | Longitude: 17.88 W | Latitude: 28.76 N | ||
| Telescope: Dutch Open Telescope | Description: | |||
| Instrument: Dutch Open Telescope (45 cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 73 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Itapetinga, Brazil | Longitude: 46.5 W | Latitude: 23.2 S | ||
| Telescope: | Description: mm-wave burst profiles | |||
| Instrument: 13.7m dish | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 75 | OAFA - CASLEO | |||
| URL: http://www.casleo.gov.ar/Instrumentos/sst/sst_eng.html | ||||
| Location: El Leoncito, San Juan, Argentina | Longitude: 69.33 W | Latitude: 31.8 S | ||
| Telescope: Solar Submilimeter Telescope (SST) | Description: 212 & 405 Ghz, 1.5 & 3 arcminute field of view, 1 & 40 ms temporal resolution | |||
| Instrument: Solar Submilimeter Telescope (SST) (150 cm) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 76 | OAFA - C.U. Cesco Station | |||
| URL: http://www2.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de/hasta/site.html | ||||
| Location: El Leoncito, San Juan, Argentina | Longitude: 69.33 W | Latitude: 31.80 S | ||
| Telescope: H-alpha Solar Telescope for Argentina (HASTA) | Description: Full Disk H-alpha | |||
| Instrument: H-alpha Solar Telescope for Argentina (HASTA) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Mirror Coronagraph for Argentina (MICA) | Description: Mirror Coronagraph - H-alpha, green and red line, 1.05 - 2 solar radii | |||
| Instrument: Mirror Coronagraph for Argentina (MICA) | Data Type: | |||
| # 77 | Sagamore Hill RSTN Site | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Sagamore Hill, MA, USA | Longitude: 70.82 W | Latitude: 42.63 N | ||
| Telescope: RSTN (Radio Solar Telescope Network) | Description: flux@0.2,0.4,1.4,2.7,5.0,8.8,15GHz | |||
| Instrument: RIMS (Radio Interference Monitoring Sets) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| Telescope: RSTN | Description: Sweep Frequency Interferometer (25-75MHz) | |||
| Instrument: SFIR (Sweep Frequency Interferometric Radiometer) | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 78 | Las Campanas Observatory | |||
| URL: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/new/lascampanas.html | ||||
| Location: Cerro Las Campanas, Chile | Longitude: 70.7 W | Latitude: 29.01 S | ||
| Telescope: BiSON site | Description: integrated sunlight | |||
| Instrument: BiSON site | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 1991 End Date: Present | Data Availability: | |||
| # 79 | La Silla Observatory | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: La Silla, Chile | Longitude: 70.73 W | Latitude: 29.26 S | ||
| Telescope: IRIS Site | Description: Integrated intensity and velocity | |||
| Instrument: Sodium resonance cell | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 80 | Cerro Tololo Astronomical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.gong.noao.edu/sites/ctio.shtml | ||||
| Location: La Serena, Chile | Longitude: 70.81 W | Latitude: 30.17 S | ||
| Telescope: GONG Site | Description: | |||
| Instrument: 2.8 cm telescope | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 81 | Stull Observatory | |||
| URL: http://merlin.alfred.edu/stull.html | ||||
| Location: Alfred, NY, USA | Longitude: 77.79 W | Latitude: 42.25 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: Active region H-alpha imaging (10' x 10'), video rate | |||
| Instrument: 20 cm Schmidt-Cassegrain | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 82 | NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center | |||
| URL: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/PAD/SOLAR/maggraph.htm | ||||
| Location: Huntsville, AL, USA | Longitude: 86.6 W | Latitude: 34.7 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: vect.magnet.(6'6'FOV) | |||
| Instrument: 30cm magnetograph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: coalig.H, FD WL+H | |||
| Instrument: 3 auxil.tel.(H/WL) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 83 | Prairie View Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.pvamu.edu/cps/Solar.html | ||||
| Location: Prairie View, TX, USA | Longitude: | Latitude: | ||
| Telescope: | Description: High-resolution and full-disk H-alpha image | |||
| Instrument: 35-cm Gregorian vacuum telescope | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 84 | Space Environment Laboratory | |||
| URL: http://www.hao.ucar.edu/ | ||||
| Location: Boulder, CO,USA | Longitude: 105.2 W | Latitude: 40.0 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk H + WL (CaK + magnetogr.: 1996) | |||
| Instrument: Patrol instr. | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 85 | National Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.nso.edu/sunspot/ | ||||
| Location: Sac Peak, NM, USA | Longitude: 105.8 W | Latitude: 32.8 N | ||
| Telescope: Dunn Solar Telescope | Description: | |||
| Instrument: VTT (75cm) | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: HAO Stokes Polarimeter | Description: | |||
| Instrument: HAO Stokes Polarimeter | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: J. Evans Facility | Description: H-alpha + Ca K spectroheliogr., 5303,5694,6374coron.scans | |||
| Instrument: J.Evans Facility | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: Hilltop Facility | Description: H+WL flare patrol | |||
| Instrument: Hilltop Facility | Data Type: | |||
| # 86 | Holloman Air Force Base | |||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Holloman, NM, USA | Longitude: 106.0 W | Latitude: 33 N | ||
| Telescope: SOON site | Description: full disk H, WL + magnetogr. | |||
| Instrument: SOON site | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 87 | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/ | ||||
| Location: Socorro, NM, USA | Longitude: 106.9 W | Latitude: 34.1 N | ||
| Telescope: Very Large Array (VLA) | Description: | |||
| Instrument: aperture synth.telesc. | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 88 | Carl Sagan Observatory (OCS) | |||
| URL: http://cosmos.cifus.uson.mx/Infraestructura/ocs/ocsnew.htm | ||||
| Location: Cerro Azul, Mexico | Longitude: 110.57 W | Latitude: 30.73 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: H-Alpha line center | |||
| Instrument: | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 2 May, 2001 End Date: Present | Data Availability: | |||
| # 89 | Solar Observation Station (EOS) | |||
| URL: http://cosmos.astro.uson.mx/Infraestructura/EOS/EOSinfrstrctr.htm | ||||
| Location: Hermosillo, Mexico | Longitude: 110.96 W | Latitude: 29.08 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: Full Disk H-alpha, CaII K, and continuum | |||
| Instrument: 12.5 cm reflector | Data Type: Visible | |||
| # 90 | National Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://nsokp.nso.edu/ | ||||
| Location: Kitt Peak, AZ, USA | Longitude: 111.6 W | Latitude: 32.0 N | ||
| Telescope: McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope Facility | Description: | |||
| Instrument: 150 cm heliostat, 2 x 91 cm heliostats | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: Vacuum Telescope | Description: full disk magnetograms + He10830 spectroheliogr. | |||
| Instrument: 70 cm coelostat, vacuum | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: SOLIS | Description: | |||
| Instrument: | Data Type: | |||
| # 91 | Big Bear Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.bbso.njit.edu/ | ||||
| Location: Big Bear, CA, USA | Longitude: 117.0 W | Latitude: 34.3 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: fulldisk WL, H-alpha, CaK, magnetograms | |||
| Instrument: 65cm Gregorian + | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: | |||
| Instrument: patrol instruments, | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: | Description: | |||
| Instrument: vector magnetograph | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: GONG Site | Description: | |||
| Instrument: 2.8 cm telescope | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: TON Site | Description: Full-Disk CaII K images | |||
| Instrument: 9 cm reflector | Data Type: | |||
| # 92 | Owens Valley Radio Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.ovsa.njit.edu/ | ||||
| Location: Owens Valley, CA, USA | Longitude: 117.9 W | Latitude: 36.4 N | ||
| Telescope: OVRO radiospectrometer | Description: | |||
| Instrument: OVRO radiospectrometer | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 93 | Mount Wilson Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.mtwilson.edu/Science/UCLA | ||||
| Location: Mt.Wilson, CA, USA | Longitude: 118.1 W | Latitude: 34.3 N | ||
| Telescope: 150 foot Tower Tel. | Description: full disk magneto- + Doppler-grams (512x512), WL images | |||
| Instrument: 150 foot Tower Tel. | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: WL images | |||
| Instrument: | Data Type: | |||
| # 94 | San Fernando Observatory | |||
| URL: http://davinci.csun.edu/~astro/sfo.htm | ||||
| Location: Sylmar, CA, USA | Longitude: 118.5 W | Latitude: 34.3 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: full disk photometric images (broad band + CaK) | |||
| Instrument: 5cm + 15cm refractors | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: | Description: active region vectormagnetogr. + Dopplergrams | |||
| Instrument: 38cm + 61cm refractors + spectroheliograph | Data Type: | |||
| # 95 | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.drao.nrc.ca/icarus/www/sol_home.shtml | ||||
| Location: Penticton, BC, Canada | Longitude: 119.62 W | Latitude: 49.32 N | ||
| Telescope: | Description: Integrated 10.7cm flux | |||
| Instrument: 10.7 cm Solar Flux Monitor | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 96 | ||||
| URL: | ||||
| Location: Hat Creek, USA | Longitude: 121.5 W | Latitude: 40.8 N | ||
| Telescope: BIMA millimeter array | Description: 3mm maps (2' res.) | |||
| Instrument: BIMA millimeter array | Data Type: Radio | |||
| # 97 | Wilconx Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://quake.stanford.edu/~wso/ | ||||
| Location: Wilcox, CA, USA | Longitude: 122.2 W | Latitude: 37.4 N | ||
| Telescope: Magnetograph | Description: LOS magnetic and velocity field | |||
| Instrument: Magnetograph | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 16 May, 1976 End Date: Present | Data Availability: GIF, Postscript | |||
| Telescope: IRIS Network Site | Description: Full-Disk Intensity and Velocity | |||
| Instrument: Sodium resonance cell | Data Type: | |||
| # 98 | Mees Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/mees.html | ||||
| Location: Haleakala, HI, USA | Longitude: 155.4 W | Latitude: 19.6 N | ||
| Telescope: POI & K-KLINE Imagers | Description: full disk Ca K images | |||
| Instrument: POI & K-KLINE Imagers | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Telescope: MCCD | Description: H-alpha imaging spec. (2' FOV, 2'' pix.) | |||
| Instrument: MCCD | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: Stokes Polarimeter | Description: vector mag. (2' FOV, 2'' pix.) | |||
| Instrument: Stokes Polarimeter | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: Imaging Vector Magnetograph (IVM) | Description: vector mag. (4' FOV with 0.6'' pixels) | |||
| Instrument: vector magnetograph (IVM) | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: H-alpha coronagraph | Description: H-alpha prominence images | |||
| Instrument: H-alpha coronagraph | Data Type: | |||
| # 99 | Mauna Loa Solar Observatory | |||
| URL: http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu/ | ||||
| Location: MaunaLoa, HI, USA | Longitude: 156.6 W | Latitude: 19.5 N | ||
| Telescope: Mark-III Coronographs | Description: K-corona Images | |||
| Instrument: Mark-III Coronographs | Data Type: Visible | |||
| Start Date: 4 Feb 1980 End Date: 30 Sep 1999 | Data Availability: GIF, Binary on Request | |||
| Telescope: Mark-IV Coronographs | Description: K-corona WL images | |||
| Instrument: Mark-IV Coronographs | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: Digital Prominence Monitor Polarimeter for Inner Coronal Studies | Description: H-Alpha Disk and Prominence | |||
| Instrument: Digital Prominence Monitor Polarimeter for Inner Coronal Studies | Data Type: | |||
| Start Date: 20 Feb, 1994 End Date: Present | Data Availability: GIF, FITS? | |||
| Telescope: Chromospheric Helium I Imaging Photometer (CHIP) | Description: Helium-I 1083 nm Full-Disk Images | |||
| Instrument: Chromospheric Helium I Imaging Photometer (CHIP) | Data Type: | |||
| Start Date: 17 Apr, 1996 End Date: Present | Data Availability: GIF | |||
| Telescope: Precision Solar Photometric Telescope (PSPT) | Description: CaII K and Continuum Full-Disk Images | |||
| Instrument: Precision Solar Photometric Telescope (PSPT) | Data Type: | |||
| Telescope: Experiment for Coordinated Helioseismic Observations (ECHO) | Description: Full Disk Potassium Images | |||
| Instrument: Experiment for Coordinated Helioseismic Observations (ECHO) | Data Type: | |||
| Start Date: 24 Feb, 1994 - LOWL Sep, 2000 - ECHO End Date: Sep, 2000 - LOWL Present - ECHO | Data Availability: On Request? | |||
| Telescope: GONG Site | Description: | |||
| Instrument: 2.8 cm telescope | Data Type: | |||