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    The Snow Solar Telescope is a solar telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. It was originally named the Snow Horizontal Telescope as it...
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    60-inch telescope which was the largest operational telescope in the world when it was completed in 1908. It also contains the Snow solar telescope completed...
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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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  • 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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    lens refracting telescope, the largest refractor ever successfully used for astronomical observation. The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope in the Canary Islands...
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    destination, a solar orbit near the Sun–Earth L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 mi) from Earth. The telescope's first image was...
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    the giant planets and the Solar System belts. Most giant planets found outside our Solar System, exoplanets, are inside the snow line, and are called Hot...
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    observatory as the observatory director. The Snow King Observatory and Planetarium offers a unique 150mm solar telescope (Hydrogen Alpha), a Planewave CDK1000...
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    observatory in Chile with three telescopes built and operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Several other telescopes are also located at the site...
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    Sedna (dwarf planet) (category Solar System)
    Observations from the SMARTS telescope show that Sedna, in visible light, is one of the reddest objects known in the Solar System, nearly as red as Mars...
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    satellite link. List of astronomical observatories National Large Solar Telescope Research List of academic and research institutes in Ladakh Bharati...
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    largest known unnamed object in the Solar System. Initially after the discovery of Gonggong, Brown nicknamed the object "Snow White" for its presumed white...
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    List of largest optical telescopes historically List of solar telescopes (for the Sun) List of space telescopes List of telescope types galileo.rice.edu...
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  • Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory, or AST/RO, was a 1.7 meter diameter off-axis telescope for research in astronomy and aeronomy...
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    Kuiper Belt and Centaur Objects: Constraints from Spitzer Space Telescope". The Solar System Beyond Neptune. p. 161. arXiv:astro-ph/0702538. Bibcode:2008ssbn...
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    (Gentilli Dome) dedicated to observations of the Solar System; The 2-meter telescope or Bernard Lyot Telescope (used with a new generation stellar spectropolarimeter);...
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    optics, parabolic mirrors are used to gather light in reflecting telescopes and solar furnaces, and project a beam of light in flashlights, searchlights...
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    Albedo (redirect from Solar reflectance)
    that of sea water. Sea water absorbs more solar radiation than would the same surface covered with reflective snow. When sea ice melts, either due to a rise...
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  • 2011–12 winter, the dome over the telescope was damaged by high winds, allowing snow to enter the observing area. The telescope was secured in early April 2012...
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    installations such as solar parabolic troughs and solar towers or non-water heating devices such as solar cookers or solar air heaters. Solar thermal collectors...
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    Observatory hosted a viewing session for the 20 April 2023 solar eclipse from 11am to 1pm. It set up telescopes which were available for use, gratis, for anyone...
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    Jupiter (category Solar System)
    and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly...
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  • iap.fr. Retrieved 2012-02-20. "Frequency of Solar-Like Systems and of Ice and Gas Giants Beyond the Snow Line from High-Magnification Microlensing Events...
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    time. These shapes correlate in detail with the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory solar telescope images taken in space at the same as the earthbound eclipse...
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    Dutch Open Telescope (DOT), also a solar telescope. A 0.6 m (2 ft 0 in) optical telescope.[citation needed] The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope (CMT). The...
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    stars can be viewed via telescope since the desert experiences more than 200 cloudless nights each year. A number of telescopes have been installed to...
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    until the invention of the telescope in early modern times. Late 2nd millennium BCE – Chinese astronomers record a solar eclipse during the reign of...
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    The Observatory Science Centre Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes The Greenwich Meridian Portals: London Astronomy Stars Outer space Solar System Science...
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    construct a large telescope began between Kuiper, Harvard University, and the University of Hawaiʻi (UH), which only had experience in solar astronomy. This...
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    524 mm) and 100-inch (2,540 mm) aperture telescopes, and 60-foot (18.3 m) and 150-foot (45.7 m) tall solar towers. The newer CHARA Array, run by Georgia...
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