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AN: SH42B-0532    [PDF]
TI: The New 1.7 m Off-Axis Solar Telescope (NST) Project: a Path to Better Solar Science
AU: * Goode, P R
EM: pgoode@bbso.njit.edu
AF: Big Bear Solar Observatory of NJIT, 40386 North Shore Lane, Big Bear City, CA 92314 United States
AU: Didkovsky, L V
EM: leonid@bbso.njit.edu
AF: Big Bear Solar Observatory of NJIT, 40386 North Shore Lane, Big Bear City, CA 92314 United States
AU: Kuhn, J
EM: kuhn@ifa.hawaii.edu
AF: Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
AB: Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) of New Jersey Institute of Technology is upgrading its 65 cm aperture vacuum telescope with a modern, off-axis 1.6 m clear aperture instrument - New Solar Telescope (NST). The NST offers a significant incremental improvement in ground-based infrared and visible light high angular resolution capabilities. It will fully utilize the optical and dynamical range advantages of its unobstructed (off-axis) pupil. The NST enhances our continuing program to understand photospheric magneto-convection and chromospheric dynamics. This new telescope will be the largest aperture solar telescope, and the largest aperture off-axis telescope located in one of the best observing sites. It will enable new, cutting edge science.
DE: 7524 Magnetic fields
DE: 7529 Photosphere
DE: 7536 Solar activity cycle (2162)
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
SC: SPA - Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting