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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fe7XDuxCYjcC&dq=Solar+Observatory+Tower+Meudon&pg=PA46|title=Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy|last1=Bhatnagar|first1=A.|last2=Livingston|first2=William Charles|date=2005|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=9789812567871|language=en}}

Sources

  • Turmbauwerke, Bauverlag GmbH, Wiesbaden (Deutschland), 1966

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