Solar Department

Head

Deputy Head

Staff & Research activities

• Solar corona
  • Ing. Jaroslav AMBROZ
  • Ing. Matus KOZAK, part-time position
  • RNDr. Vojtech RUSIN, DrSc., part-time position
  • RNDr. Jan RYBAK, CSc.
  • RNDr. Metod SANIGA, DrSc.
  • Mgr. Pavol SCHWARTZ, PhD.
• Solar photosphere, chromosphere & Solar activity
  • Mgr. Marcela BODNAROVA, PhD.
  • Mgr. Peter GOMORY, PhD.
  • Mgr. Július KOZA, PhD.
  • RNDr. Ales KUCERA, CSc.
  • Mgr. Radka VASKOVA, postgraduate student
• Technicians
  • Peter HABAJ
  • Mgr. Juraj KAVKA, part-time position
  • Ing. Marek KOLLARIK, part-time position
  • Ing. Michal PIKLER, part-time position

Observatories & Instrumentation

• Lomnicky Stit Observatory:public web page, intranet.
  • Coordinates:
    • Longitude: 20° 12' 47.43" EAST
    • Latitude: 49° 11' 42.53" NORTH
    • Altitude: 2 633.0 meters above sea level
  • Telescopes: two ZEISS 200/3000 Coronagraphs: D = 20 cm, f_eff = 4 m
  • Spectropolarimeter: Coronal Multi-Channel Polarimeter (CoMP-S): public web page, intranet
  • Spectropolarimeter: Solar Chromospheric Detector (SCD)
  • Head of the observatory: Mgr. Pavol SCHWARTZ, PhD.


• Stara Lesna Observatory:
  • Coordinates
    • Longitude: 20° 17' 28" EAST
    • Latitude: 49° 09' 10" NORTH
    • Altitude: 810 meters above sea level
  • Horizontal Solar Telescope with Spectrograph: Jensch type coelostat with two plane mirrors (D = 60 cm) The telescope is of an off-axial Kutter type with a spherical main mirror (D = 50 cm, f = 35 m). The collimator and camera mirrors of the spectrograph are of the apertures 25 cm and 40 cm respectively, (f = 9.65 m). Dispersion of the spectrograph is about 0.16 nm/mm in the first order.