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    GREGOR is a solar telescope, equipped with a 1.5-metre primary mirror, located at 2,390 m altitude at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary...
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    A solar telescope or a solar observatory is a special-purpose telescope used to observe the Sun. Solar telescopes usually detect light with wavelengths...
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    The Vacuum Tower Telescope is an evacuated-optics solar telescope located at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It is operated by...
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    Open Telescope (DOT) is an optical solar telescope located on Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma (near the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope). With...
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  • Ottoman-French musician GREGOR Solar Telescope Gregor GR-1 airplane Search for "gregor" on Wikipedia. St. Gregor, Saskatchewan, Canada Gregor MacGregor (disambiguation)...
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    France and Italy. GREGOR Solar Telescope: 1.5 m, operated by a German consortium. In operation since May 2012. A node of the Birmingham Solar Oscillations...
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    observatories include the McMath–Pierce solar telescope or the newer GREGOR Solar Telescope, and the refurbished Big Bear Solar Observatory. The heliosphere is...
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    observatory at the Teide Observatory became operational. In 2013, GREGOR Solar Telescope, equipped with a 1.5 m primary mirror, started its science operations...
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  • List of telescope types Giant Magellan Telescope Gregor telescope at the Teide Observatory. James Gregory is the inventor of the Gregorian telescope. James...
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  • Ground-based solar telescopes are specialized telescopes used to observe the Sun from Earth's surface. Solar telescopes often have multiple focal lengths...
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    solar telescope Great Refractor at Telegrafenberg GREGOR solar telescope, collaboration with KIS Large Binocular Telescope Meridian Circle OSRA Solar...
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    building incorporated a polar Cassegrain telescope, a transit telescope (no longer functional), a solar telescope, and a sundial on the south wall.[citation...
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    while precessing to scan the sky, thus keeping all telescope components cool and powering Gaia using solar panels on its surface. These factors and the materials...
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  • observatories, telescopes or surveys (see § Discovering dedicated institutions). On how a discovery is made, see observations of small Solar System bodies...
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  • list of large optical telescopes. For telescopes larger than 3 meters in aperture see List of largest optical reflecting telescopes. This list combines...
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    infrared wavelengths. In 2002, optical interferometry with the Very Large Telescope (VLTI) found that the angular diameter of Proxima Centauri is 1.02±0.08 mas...
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    located between it and the Solar System that it cannot be studied with optical telescopes and for its observation infrared telescopes such as Spitzer, radiotelescopes...
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    HD 63433 (category Solar analogs)
    6.9, it is not visible to the naked eye, but can be seen with a small telescope or binoculars. It is part of the Ursa Major Moving Group. HD 63433 has...
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    Tau Ceti (category Solar-type stars)
    3847/1538-3881/aa83b4. S2CID 53500995. MacGregor, Meredith A; et al. (2016). "ALMA Observations of the Debris Disk of Solar Analogue Tau Ceti". The Astrophysical...
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  • scientific activities of the institute are mostly devoted to astrophysics with telescopes orbiting in space. A large amount of the resources are spent for studying...
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    based upon infrared observations made with the 62-inch Caltech Infrared Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. Its energy is emitted mostly at infrared...
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    classified as a solar analog. With an apparent magnitude of 6.9, the star cannot be been with the naked eye, but can be with a small telescope or binoculars...
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    the 2.7m telescope. Toward that end, he persuaded NASA the telescope was needed in support of space missions to the planets. The telescope brought new...
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    Ianna, P. A. (4 August 2006). "The Solar Neighborhood. XVI. Parallaxes from CTIOPI: Final Results from the 1.5 m Telescope Program". The Astronomical Journal...
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    Way would almost certainly be observable through modern astronomical telescopes. The most recent naked-eye supernova was SN 1987A, which was the explosion...
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  • meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working...
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  • the credits roll. K-PAX Dr. Mark Powell looks through the lens of his telescope as if he is looking for the stars of K-PAX. Shallow Hal Behind the scenes...
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    using adaptive optics at the Gemini North telescope indicate a central mass of approximately 800 million solar masses, including both the mass of the black...
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    Observations of the AU Microscopii system with the James Webb Space Telescope were unable to confirm the presence of previously unknown companions....
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    Clarendon Press. Bennett, Jeffrey; Shostak, Seth; Schneider, Nicholas; MacGregor, Meredith (2017). Life in the Universe. Princeton University Press. Bowler...
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