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Yohkoh Public Outreach Project

http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/

Solar educational resources from the Yohkoh X-ray telescope space mission. Includes images, movies, educational resources, and a "tour" of the Sun.

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Wilcox Solar Observatory

http://wso.stanford.edu/

Offers observations for space weather and magnetic field maps.

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UCO/Lick Observatory

http://www.ucolick.org/

Operates on behalf of the astronomers at all ten UC campuses and is comprised of extensive technical facilities, a business office, telescope and support facilities at the Lick Observatory on Mt Hamilton and a staff of astronomers.

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The solar telescope THMIS

http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/people/paletou/Themis/

THMIS [Heliographic Telescope for the Study of the Magnetism and Instabilities on the Sun] is a new generation solar telescope built by the INSU/CNRS (France) and the CNR (Italy) agencies. The telescope is installed at the International Observatory of the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Spain) which is operated by the Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias.

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The San Fernando Observatory

http://www.csun.edu/sfo/

Operated by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at California State University, the San Fernando Observatory is a state of the art Solar Observatory and the primary astronomical research tool of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

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The National Solar Observatory

http://www.nso.edu/

Science projects, outreach and images from US facilities.

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The Institute for Solar Physics

http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/

Home of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science's 1-m solar telescope. High-resolution images available.

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The 60-Foot Solar Tower

http://physics1.usc.edu/solar/

The HiDHN project is a network of two sites whose primary purpose is to study the high order oscillations of the sun in the narrow sodium D-line wavelengths. The two sites, Mt. Wilson Observatory, above the city of Pasadena in California and the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO)(US mirror site) in the Ukraine, study solar oscillations to develop a model of the internal structure of the sun(HiDHN)

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Solar Group of RATAN-600

http://www.sao.ru/hq/sun/

Part of Russian Special Astrophysical Group located in the Caucasus mountains of Karachaevo-Cherkesia.

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Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope

http://nsosp.nso.edu/dst/

Specializes in solar high resolution imaging and spectroscopy.

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National Solar Observatory

http://nsokp.nso.edu/

National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak

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Kiepenheuer Solar Physics Institute

http://www.kis.uni-freiburg.de/

Offers overview of research projects by a German institute and solar observations made with their vacuum tower telescope in Tenerife, Spain.

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IPS Culgoora Solar Observatory

http://www.ips.gov.au/Main.php?CatID=5&SecID=2&SecName=Culgoora+Observatory&SubSecID=1&SubSecName=Overview

The Culgoora Solar Observatory is located 25 km west of the town of Narrabri, in north-west New South Wales. The observatory conducts continuous optical and radio observations of the sun every day of the year.

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High Altitude Observatory Homepage

http://www.hao.ucar.edu/

High Altitude Observatory (HAO) is dedicated to the study of the Sun and of the response of the Earth's upper atmosphere to the Sun's output.

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Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)

http://gong.nso.edu/

Offers science data and project descriptions of a Helioseimology observation network.

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Current Solar Data and Worldwide Observing Plans

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/solcoord/

Provides updated overview of ongoing observation plans and solar events by NOAA. Includes links to other resources.

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Catania Astrophysical Observatory

http://www.ct.astro.it/

General information, meetings, events, and staff.

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Big Bear Solar Observatory

http://www.bbso.njit.edu/

The BBSO is operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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