7 April 2023 Solar patrol observatory at the Silesian University of Technology
Adam Popowicz, Franciszek Swoboda, Slawomir Lasota, Jerzy Fiolka, Valeri Orlov, Krzysztof Bernacki, Pawel Rudawy
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Abstract

The Silesian University of Technology Observatories (SUTO) group’s solar patrol station, SUTO Solar, is designed to collect patrol images of the Sun. The observatory is operated remotely and equipped with a 60-mm Lunt telescope for imaging in the Hα 656.28 nm hydrogen line and an 80-mm Sky Watcher refractor for imaging in the continuum centered at 540 nm. Both telescopes use complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) cameras. A set of environmental sensors measuring temperature, humidity, and pressure provide information about the optical instruments. Real-time full-disk images and archival data are shared via a dedicated web page. In future work, low-resolution images generated by SUTO Solar will be used as training datasets for dedicated machine learning algorithms designed to enhance images acquired by small instruments.

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Adam Popowicz, Franciszek Swoboda, Slawomir Lasota, Jerzy Fiolka, Valeri Orlov, Krzysztof Bernacki, and Pawel Rudawy "Solar patrol observatory at the Silesian University of Technology," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 9(2), 027001 (7 April 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.9.2.027001
Received: 7 March 2022; Accepted: 20 March 2023; Published: 7 April 2023
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KEYWORDS
Observatories

Telescopes

Sun

Calibration

Equipment

Tunable filters

Cameras

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