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Kitt Peak National Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on a 2,096 m (6,880 ft) peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation, 88 kilometres (55 miles) southwest of Tucson. The observatory is considered to be part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), although some of the telescopes located here, like those at the MDM Observatory, belong to other groups. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12 m radio telescope that was decommissioned in 2002 is also in the location. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kitt_Peak_National_Observatory   (347 words)

National Solar Observatory The National Solar Observatory / Sacramento Peak is located in southern New Mexico at the height of 9200 feet (2800 meters) in the Sacramento Mountains. In addition, scientists from other observatories and universities around the world come to the National Solar Observatory. By examining the solar spectrum, it is possible to determine the sun's chemical composition, its temperature, the motions of its surface gases, and the strength of the magnetic field. www.rozylowicz.com /retirement/solar/solar.html   (1784 words)

National Solar Observatory A branch of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, founded in 1984, that operates solar telescopes at two main sites: Kitt Peak, Arizona, where the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope is located, and Sacramento Peak Observatory. NSO also manages the Global Oscillation Network Group. daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/NSO.html   (117 words)

Sun These images, taken March 7, 1996, by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), show (top) magnetic fields on the sun's surface near the south solar pole; (middle) an ultraviolet image of the 1 million degree plumes from the same region; and (bottom) an ultraviolet image of the "quiet" solar atmosphere closer to the surface. This image of the solar corona was acquired on 23 December 1996 by the LASCO instrument on the SOHO spacecraft. In this photograph, the solar poles are distinguished by a relative absence of supergranulation network, and a much darker tone than the central portions of the disk. www.solarviews.com /eng/sun.htm   (1180 words)

deseretnews.com Utah hopes to be home of new solar observatory Deseret Morning News Web edition America already has a huge National Solar Observatory at Sunspot, N.M., with other telescopes at Kitt Peak, Ariz. But a new generation of telescope is the goal of planners, who hope to choose a site for the advanced observatory sometime this year. The ideas are far enough along, though, that USU has shown the director of the National Solar Observatory — and two of the observatory's scientists — around campus. The national observatory, operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. and the National Science Foundation, is the "principal investigator" and will run the new telescope. deseretnews.com /dn/print/1,1442,510046619,00.html   (1188 words)

Solar Astronomy The mission of the National Solar Observatory is to advance knowledge of the Sun, both as an astronomical object and as the dominant external influence on Earth, by providing forefront observational opportunities to the research community. The Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory is operated by the Institute of Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology (IGAM) of the University of Graz, Austria. It was established in 1899 as a Solar Physics Observatory and all the activities of the Madras Observatory were shifted to Kodaikanal. www.cv.nrao.edu /fits/www/yp_solar.html   (4063 words)

Solar images at SDAC Photospheric longitudinal magnetograms from the U.S. National Solar Observatory SOLIS vector spectromagnetograph (VSM) at Kitt Peak (Arizona) [ 2005/11/11 17:58 UT ] A variety of solar imagrey is available from the US National Solar Observatory via anonymous ftp. Wilson Observatory 150-ft Solar Tower: magnetograms, Dopplergrams, and "intensitygrams" in two photospheric lines, as well as white-light sunspot drawings umbra.nascom.nasa.gov /images/latest.html   (660 words)

NSO: Research Experiences for Undergraduates In addition to research experiences, summer activities will include a number of social events and excursions, and interactions with other NSO and Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) summer students and visitors. National Science Foundation (NSF) in the summer of 2005. The Observatory has two sites - one at Tucson, AZ and the other at Sunspot, NM - with eo.nso.edu /reu   (376 words)

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News National Solar Observatory officials said the selection of the final site will be based on which location will maximize the scientific productivity of the telescope. The potential sites for the Advance Technology Solar Telescope were narrowed to three from six by the National Solar Observatory and its partners, the Institute announced Monday. The facility in Kula, expected to be built in about a year and a half, includes space to host National Solar Observatory officials, he said. starbulletin.com /2003/12/10/news/story9.html   (378 words)

Solar scope heading for Hawaii www.azstarnet.com ® The National Solar Observatory will no longer be able to afford its operation, as it moves all of its $10 million annual budget and more for its bigger, more powerful scope in Hawaii. The smaller Dunn Solar Telescope, at the National Solar Observatory's New Mexico facility, is headed for the same fate. The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope is a project of the National Science Foundation's National Solar Observatory, based in Tucson and Sunspot, N.M., and its 13-foot mirror will give scientists an unprecedented glimpse into the sun's heat and magnetism - both of which influence conditions on Earth. www.azstarnet.com /dailystar/printDS/56001.php   (629 words)

East Point Solar Observatory - Nahant Some of these observations will be carried out in support of CRI solar observing programs from NASA spacecraft, and also with the much larger solar telescopes of the National Solar Observatory stations at Kitt Peak, Arizona, and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico. East Point Solar Observatory has been built by Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRI) as a research and public education facility, supported by the Atmospheric Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. The Observatory contains a Zeiss coude refractor of 15 cm aperture and 225 cm focal length, built in Jena, Germany. www.marinescience.neu.edu /solarobservatory   (302 words)

NSO's Educational and Outreach Resources The National Solar Observatory is operated by the The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope's Role in Education Computer-based Exercise for the Classroom: The Period of Rotation of the Sun, produced by Project CLEA in collaboration with the GONG Program. eo.nso.edu   (117 words)

Space Weather Images courtesy of the National Solar Observatory, a Division of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, which is operated by AURA, Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation Vacuum Telescope Facility at Kitt Peak National Solar Observatory The NSO is a part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory which is operated by the Associationof Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF). www.windows.ucar.edu /spaceweather/kittpeak_observatory.html   (232 words)

Sun's Got the Beat (Image courtesy NSF's National Solar Observatory) [more information] The solar "heartbeat" throbs in the same region of the Sun suspected of driving the 11-year cycle of solar eruptions, during which the Sun goes from stormy to quiet and back again. Analysis of solar sound waves is the science of helioseismology, and it opened the Sun's gaseous interior to investigation in much the same way as seismologists learned to explore the Earth's rocky interior with earthquake waves. science.msfc.nasa.gov /headlines/y2000/ast03apr_1m.htm   (993 words)

The pulse of the solar dynamo GONG is managed by the National Solar Observatory, a Division of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, which is operated by AURA, Inc. Please include attribution to "NSF's National Solar Observatory" if these images are used. The data were acquired by instruments operated by the Big Bear Solar Observatory, High Altitude Observatory, Learmonth Solar Observatory, Udaipur Solar Observatory, Instituto de Astrofísico de Canarias, and Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. soi.stanford.edu /press/GONG_MDI_03-00   (1741 words)

print_images.asp?id=26 They were made with the Vacuum Tower Telescope of the National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak from 8 January 1992, during the last maximum in the sunspot cycle (lower left) to 25 July 1999, well into the next maximum (lower left). This photograph was taken with exceptional angular resolution of 0.2 arc-seconds or 150 thousand meters at the Sun, using the National Solar Observatory’s Vacuum Tower Telescope at the Sacramento Peak Observatory. A coronagraph on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) shows bright helmet streamers near the Sun’s equatorial regions (center right and center left) near the minimum in the Sun’s magnetic activity cycle. ase.tufts.edu /astroweb/print_images.asp?id=26   (3173 words)

National Solar Observatory (NSO) Sacramento Peak Fe XIV and Ca XV Coronal Maps Two databases containing the National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak Fe XIV 530.3 nm and Ca XV 569.4 nm coronal maps are accessible in separate subdirectories. The National Solar Observatory has made data accessible on-line via the networks. National Solar Observatory (NSO) Sacramento Peak Fe XIV and Ca XV Coronal Maps gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov /records/GCMD_NSO_DATA_02.html   (364 words)

World's largest solar adaptive optics system developed in New Mexico Advance copies of the full story, plus high-resolution images and MPEGs of solar observations using the new AO system, are on-line at the National Solar Observatory web site: http://www.nso.edu/press/AO/ao.html. The high-order adaptive optics (AO) project is a joint effort of the National Solar Observatory and the Big Bear Solar Observatory, New Jersey Institute of Technology. The NSO is part of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) and is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-06/noao-wls061303.php   (523 words)

Kitt Peak National Observatory In 1984, the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) was formed, consolidating management of the three national groundbased optical observatories: Kitt Peak National Observatory, the National Solar Observatory with facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. In addition, the National Solar Observatory maintains telescopes on Kitt Peak for studying and monitoring the Sun that are unique in the world. It was in October of 1958 that the Tohono O'odham Nation (then known as the Papago Tribe) signed an agreement with the National Science Foundation and the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Inc., and Kitt Peak National Observatory was established. www.xs4all.nl /~carlkop/kittpeak.html   (840 words)

Kitt Peak National Observatory on Encyclopedia.com The solar division, now part of the National Solar Observatory, using the solar telescope in coordination with a vacuum spectrograph, analyzes the composition, magnetic field strength, motion, and physical nature of the sun. astronomical observatory located southwest of Tucson, Ariz.; it was founded in 1958 under contract with the National Science Foundation and is administered by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. Other telescopes are located on Kitt Peak, notably those of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Steward Observatory. www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KittP1N1O1.asp   (452 words)

Open Directory - Science: Astronomy: Solar System: Sun: Observatories The San Fernando Observatory - 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. IPS Culgoora Solar Observatory - The Culgoora Solar Observatory is located 25 km west of the town of Narrabri, in north-west New South Wales. The solar telescope THÉMIS - 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. dmoz.org /Science/Astronomy/Solar_System/Sun/Observatories   (532 words)

National Solar Observatory NSO scientists also will produce a movie of the impact. At the Sacramento Peak, N.M., facility of the NSO, scientists will study the comet impact's effect on Jupiter's atmosphere, using the methane absorption band of the Jovian spectrum. www2.jpl.nasa.gov /sl9/solar.html   (38 words)

National Solar Observatory This series of solar spectra may be taken as a reference for comparing the spectra of solar-type stars when searching for the presence of anomalous bright lines. However, a couple or representative spectra, reproduced at a low pixel resolution suitable for printing, may be found by clicking on Solar Type Spectra. Copyright ©, 1990-2003, The Columbus Optical SETI Observatory www.coseti.org /natsolar.htm   (164 words)

The National Solar Observatory Digital Library NSO provides several important data sets to the solar physics community, such as full-disk daily magnetograms, He 10380 spectroheliograms, and solar spectral atlases from Kitt Peak; as well as H-\alpha and Ca K spectroheliograms, and coronal scans from Sacramento Peak. In order to provide better access to these data for the solar physics community, NSO is developing a digital library. The usage of these data sets has rapidly increased over the last 3 years as indicated in the logs of NSO/KP anonymous FTP activity which show increases of 400% in the number of logins, and 100% in the number of files transferred. www.aas.org /publications/baas/v29n2/spd28/abs/S002072.html   (260 words)

Template #1 At present SSSMs are also being used by the National Solar Observatory in site surveys for the proposed next-generation large aperture solar telescope. The main emphasis of this research has been the development of new astronomical instrumentation to be used with the solar telescopes of the National Solar Observatory (U.S) and other solar observatories The most recent research at ECU, combined with observations at NSO, includes new wavefront sensing methods for adaptive optics systems to be used with current and next-generation solar telescopes, and in the development of new techniques to measure optical turbulence at all levels in the atmosphere. www.ecu.edu /physics/solar.html   (100 words)

The Solar Spectrum National Solar Observatory (Sacramento Peak) Ca II K Spectroheliograms National Solar Observatory (Kitt Peak) He I 10830 Å Spectroheliograms National Solar Observatory (Kitt Peak) Ca II 8542 Å Magnetograms csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr162/lect/sun/spectrum.html   (470 words)

ADASS 2003 Conference Proceedings There are three main initiatives: the European Grid of Solar Observations (EGSO), funded by the European Commission; the US Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO), funded by NASA; and the Sun Earth Connector (CoSEC), funded by NASA under the International Living with a Star (ILWS) program. However, it should be recognized that the data of the solar and heliospheric communities differs in content and usage from the astrophysics community and that the virtual observatory initiatives are not necessarily all addressing the same problems. In addition, all three solar VO projects are members of a new Working Group on ``International Data Access'' that was created under Division II of the IAU, the ``Sun and Heliosphere''. adass.org /adass/proceedings/adass03/P3-15   (1176 words)

Largest Sunspot In Recent Years More information on the National Solar Observatory is available at www.nso.noao.edu. Dramatic images of the largest sunspot to appear in a decade are available from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Solar Observatory. (Images should be credited to NSF National Solar Observatory) www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-04/NSF-LSIR-0104101.php   (150 words)

All.info: Science and Health / Physics and Astronomy / Solar Observatories / The National Solar Observatory advances knowledge of the Sun, both as an astronomical object and as the dominant external influence on Earth, by providing forefront observational opportunities to the international research community. Big Bear Solar Observatory is located in Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California. The observatory was built by the California Institute of Technology in 1969 and has been operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology since 1997. allinfo.com /directory/Science_and_Health/Physics_and_Astronomy/Solar_Observatories   (226 words)

NSO/SP: Visitor Information The National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak welcomes visitors during the daytime. Lincoln National Forest in the Sacramento Mountains, near The Observatory offers various kinds of tours, including a virtual tour that you can take right now. www.nso.edu /nsosp/pr   (114 words)

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