Solar Department
Head
Ales KUCERA
Deputy Head
Peter GOMORY
Staff & Research activities
- Solar corona
- Solar photosphere, chromosphere & Solar activity
- Technicians
- Pavol BENDIK
- Peter HAVRILA
- Rastislav MACURA
- Karol MANIK
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
- USA - Slovakia: NSF project
- Austria - Slovakia: collaborative inter-government project
-
Solar flares: trigerring and consequences on space weather
- Period : 1/1/2006 - 31/12/2007
- Principal investigator : Dr. Jan Rybak
- 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
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