Solar Department

Staff & Research activities

• Solar corona
  • Lubomir KLOCOK
  • Milan MINAROVJECH
  • Vojtech RUSIN
  • Julius SYKORA
• Solar photosphere, chromosphere & Solar activity
  • Ales KUCERA
  • Peter GOMORY, postgraduate student
  • Julius KOZA
  • Jan RYBAK
  • Metod SANIGA
  • Frantisek TOMASZ, postgraduate student
• Technicians
  • Pavol BENDIK
  • Rastislav MACURA
  • Karol MANIK
  • Ladislav SCHEIRICH

Observatories & Instrumentation

• Lomnicky Stit Observatory
  • Coordinates
    • Longitude: 20° 13' 12" EAST
    • Latitude: 49° 11' 48" NORTH
    • Altitude: 2 632 meters above sea level
  • Telescope: Double Coronagraph: D = 20 cm, f = 4 m, dispersion of the spectrograph = 0.8 nm/mm
• 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.

Grants & Scientific projects

• Grant Agency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences VEGA
  • Multispectral analysis and modelling of temporal evolution of the quiet and active solar atmosphere (no. VEGA 2/6195/26)
    • Leader : Dr. Ales Kucera
    • term : 1/1/2006 - 31/12/2008
  • Solar activity in corona and prominences (VEGA 2/4011/24)
    • Leader : Dr. Vojtech Rusin
    • end of term : 1/1/2004 - 31/12/2006
  • Zonal peculiarities of the evolution precesses on the Sun (VEGA 2/4013/24)
    • Leader : Dr. Julius Sykora
    • end of term : 1/1/2004 - 31/12/2006

• Agency for support of science and research APVV
  • Emission corona and prominences: indicators of solar activity and space weather (no. APVT-51-012704)
    • Leader : Dr. Vojtech Rušin
    • Period : 1/1/2005 - 31/12/2007

• 5th Frame Programme of the European Union
  • European Solar Magnetism Network - ESMN-2
    • Leader : Prof. R.J. Rutten
    • Period : 1/10/2002 - 31/9/2006
    • Local leader : Dr. Ales Kucera

• USA - Slovakia: NSF project
  • Space weather: Numerical MHD Study of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs): Initiation and Propagation
    • Leader : Prof. S. T. Wu
    • Period : 1/4/2004 - 31/3/2007
    • Local leader : Dr. Jan Rybak

• Austrian-Slovak project: inter-government agreement on scientific and technical cooperation
  • Solar flares: trigerring and consequences on space weather
    • Leader : Dr. Jan Rybak
    • Period : 1/1/2006 - 31/12/2007

• Institute projects
  • Solar corona and sloar eclipses - principal investigator: V. Rusin
  • Solar protuberances and automatization of solar observations - principal investigator: M. Minarovjech
  • Dynamics of solar photosphere and chromosphere - principal investigator: A. Kucera
  • Solar cycle and Sun (Solar?) -Earth relations - principal investigator: J. Sykora
  • Outer layers of the solar atmosphere - principal investigator: J. Rybak