CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 23, year: 1993


Abstract: A proposal of a new telescope/auxiliary instrumentation system for the solar coronal station at Lomnicky Stit (2632 m asl) is described in both the general concept and some particular technical details. The main aim of the system is to observe the near-limb photospheric and chromospheric layers of the solar atmosphere by the white-light and narrow-band imaging, as well as to perform the visible and near-infrared spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry of the parts of solar disk already mentioned. These sorts of data, measured simultaneously with the coronal emission line profiles which are regularly obtained at this time by coronagraph, could give us a great amount of physical information about the solar activity events (such as the height distribution of energy, mass, magnetic fields and their time evolution). The initial ideas and motivation of the project are explained. The parameters of the system components - refractors, narrow band filters, focal plane detectors and fibre optics positioners, telescope-spectrograph coupling via fiber optics, spectrographs, detectors and computers for the control of observations and the data acquisition - are discussed. TV CCD detectors connected with the advanced frame grabbers and the IBM PC computers are especially taken into account for the data acquisition. We also briefly mention advantages and disadvantages of the system as a whole. Finally, the future prospects of the project proposal are briefly described.

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