Specola Solare
The Specola Solare Ticinese is a solar observatory in Locarno .
The observatory was founded in 1957 in the International Geophysical Year and is located in Locarno-Monti at the location of the regional headquarters of MeteoSwiss . It records the relative number of sunspots and was part of the Swiss Federal Observatory at ETH Zurich until 1980 . Since then it has been operated by a private association and supplies the data to the Royal Observatory of Belgium, which is now responsible for the distribution of the relative sunspot number . It is largely financed by the canton of Ticino through the lottery fund .
literature
- Sergio Cortesi et al .: Sunspot observations and counting at Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno since 1957. In: Solar Physics , 2016, arxiv : 1602.07998 , doi : 10.1007 / s11207-016-0872-7 .
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Coordinates: 46 ° 10 '20.4 " N , 8 ° 47' 16.5" E ; CH1903: 704.2 thousand / 114324