National Solar Observatory

(NSO) The US solar observation facilities consisting of the solar telescopes of Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona and Sacramento Peak Observatory, New Mexico. Formerly part of the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory, it is currently headed by its own director and managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).

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The company added that the DKIST project is funded by the National Science Foundation and is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy and the National Solar Observatory.

Northrop Grumman and AOA Xinetics provide deformable mirror for world's largest ground-based solar telescope

Matt Penn of the National Solar Observatory, another study co-author, said sunspot magnetic fields have been steadily decreasing in strength since 1998.

Snoozing sun: Sunspots may disappear for years

All spectra were recorded on the 1 m vacuum Fourier transform spectrometer [3] at the National Solar Observatory (Kitt Peak).

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3-meter (formerly KPNO) 1965 National Solar Observatory 9.

Budget scramble at Kitt Peak: a federal agencies tighten their belts, several publicly funded telescopes are seeking inventive paths forward

Frank Hill of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson and colleagues used ground-based detectors to monitor changes in the solar surface due to the reverberation of sound waves inside the sun.

Next solar cycle may be a no-show: studies suggest sun may be headed for decades of dormancy

Dr Frank Hill, of the US National Solar Observatory, said: "This is highly unusual and unexpected.

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Zirker is former director of the National Solar Observatory.

An Acre of Glass : A History and Forecast of the Telescope

Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): Scientists at Southwest Research Institute and the National Solar Observatory have developed the first detailed images of solar wind structures as plasma and other particles from a coronal mass ejection (CME) travelled 93 million miles and impacted Earth, thanks to NASA's STEREO spacecraft.

NASA's STEREO leads to first detailed images of solar wind structures

It is possible that the current sunspot cycle, cycle 24, was seeded with magnetic fields from cycle 23, or even an earlier cycle, cycle 22," says Matt Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson.

Spots suggest sun's doldrums likely to continue: despite recent flare, weak solar activity still expected

National Solar Observatory manages big Sun-watching telescopes on Kitt Peak and on Sacramento Peak in New Mexico, as well as the forthcoming Advanced Technology Solar Telescope in Hawaii ($11.

Changing times for U.S. astronomy: the budgetary writing is on the wall: the National Science Foundation doesn't have enough money both to operate all of its existing facilities and to build big, expensive new ones

The fact that there are three separate lines of evidence all pointing in the same direction is very compelling," the Telegraph quoted Frank Hill, of the National Solar Observatory in New Mexico, who worked on one of the studies, as saying.

Low solar activity can lead to Little Ice Age in future?

Relying on magnetic field data from the orbiting Solar and Heliospherie Observatory (SOHO), the National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak in Arizona, and the Wilcox Solar Observatory in Stanford, Calif.

The sun's halo in 3-D: new perspectives on solar explosions

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