The 1.6 m off-axis New Solar Telescope (NST) in Big Bear

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Abstract

The 1.6-m New Solar Telescope (NST) has been used to observe the Sun for more than three years with ever increasing capabilities as its commissioning phase winds down. The NST is the first facility-class solar telescope built in the U.S. in a generation, and it has an off-axis design as is planned for the 4 m Advanced Technology Solar Telescope. Lessons learned will be discussed. Current NST post-focus instrumentation includes adaptive optics (AO) feeding photometric and near-IR polarimetric sytems, as well as an imaging spectrograph. On-going instrumentation projects will be sketched, including Multi-Conjugate AO (MCAO), next generation (dual Fabry-Pérot) visible light and near-IR polarimeters and a fully cryogenic spectrograph. Finally, recent observational results illustrating the high resolution capabilities of the NST will be shown. © 2012 SPIE.

Identifier

84871755153 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9780819491459]

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925494

ISSN

0277786X

Volume

8444

Grant

0847126

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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