Solar Observatory Tower Meudon
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Location of Solar Observatory Tower Meudon
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Solar Observatory Tower Meudon is a 36.47 metre tall tower built of reinforced concrete on the area of Meudon Observatory in Meudon, France, which has in its interior a spectrograph for examination of the sun. Solar Observatory Tower Meudon was built in 1964-65, and is a solar tower, a type of solar telescope. It has a shaft diameter of 6.6 metres. In a height of 30.57 metres it has an observatory floor with 18.4 metre diameter. The shaft of the tower consists of two concrete tubes which are separated by a 10 centimetre wide air spelt, in order to avoid wind induced vibrations.
The telescope has a 60 cm aperture.[1]
Sources
- Turmbauwerke, Bauverlag GmbH, Wiesbaden (Deutschland), 1966
- ^ Bhatnagar, A.; Livingston, William Charles (2005). Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy. World Scientific. ISBN 9789812567871.
See also
- Paris Observatory
- List of towers
- List of solar telescopes
- Meudon Great Refractor (nearby telescope facility dating to 1891)
External links
- Skyscraperpage.com
- History of the Observatory at Meudon
- Video The building of the Solar Observatory Tower, by Roger Servajean, on Paris Observatory digital library
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