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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See also
- Paris Observatory
- List of towers
- List of solar telescopes
- Meudon Great Refractor (nearby telescope facility dating to 1891)
External links
- [http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b47595 Skyscraperpage.com]
- [http://www.obspm.fr/-histoire-du-site-de-meudon-.html History of the Observatory at Meudon]
- [https://bibnum.obspm.fr/ark:/11287/2gRgz Video The building of the Solar Observatory Tower], by Roger Servajean, on Paris Observatory digital library
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