A NEW SOLAR STATION IN ICA - MUTSUMI ISHITSUKA: A RESEARCH CENTER TO IMPROVE EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOLS

Raúl Andrés Terrazas RamosUniversidad Nacional San Luis Gonzaga de Ica-Facultad de

Ciencias U.N.ICA-PERU

SEPT 24 2009 UN/ESA/NASA/JAXA BSS & IHY - DAEJEON, KOREA

Haga clic para modificar el estilo de subtítulo del patrón

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The Faculty of Sciences of the University San Luis Gonzaga de Ica (U.N.ICA)

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In 2001 a 7.6 cm telescope was installed on the roof of Faculty of Sciences

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Then after a year a bigger telescope with electric driving and equatorial mount was installed.

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A group of students were trained to obtain the relative number of sunspots.

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

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A Digital Camera to photograph solar photosphere.

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GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF PERU (IGP) – NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OF JAPAN (NAOJ)

In 2004, IGP signed a cooperation agreement (MoU) with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Mutual cooperation in the fields of Solar Physics, Astronomy and Radio Astronomy and Astronomy education.

Then we received some optical components that would be part of a Solar Spectrograph which will be installed on the Solar Station-U.N.ICA.

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The IGP moved a Solar Spectrograph that was at the Huancayo Observatory to the Ancon Observatory of IGP (2004).

Solar Spectrograph

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SOLAR STATION 4.2 HECTARES (U.N.ICA -2005)

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RESIDENTIAL

Solar telescope

Solar Spectrograph

OFFICES

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Training in solar observations at NAOJ.

Hida Observatory Nobeyama Radio Observatory

Norikura Observatory

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Visit of Professor Kazunari Shibata,to Ica

CURRENT RESEARCHES IN THE U.N.ICA

Currently it is being created a database of records of sunspots by Miss Lurdes Martinez. Also students of mechanical engineering have designed and constructed an equatorial mount for a small Telescope Reflector. A graduate student is making a research with old radio observations data from Huancayo Observatory.

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UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS GONZAGA DE ICA

U.N.ICA

SOLAR STATION

The Solar Station is located within the university campus in the city of Ica. This city is located south of Lima, capital of Peru. This station will be the first observatory of its kind in Peru.

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The equipment that will be installed at the solar station are provided by the Geophysical Institute of Peru and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

REPRESENTATIVESREPRESENTATIVESOF THE NAOJ.OF THE NAOJ.

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Visit of Professor Takashi Sakurai (2009)

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LOCATION: Latitude: 14° 05´ 20.55” S Longitude: 75° 44´ 11.28”W Altitude: 406 mWEATHER:Annual precipitation: 3 mm in averageAverage temperature: 23°CAverage humidity: 20% SOLAR

STATION

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EQUIPMENT

Digital Monochromatic heliograph.

Digital Solar Spectrograph.

Takahashi Refractor Telescope 15 cm.

FMT- Flare Monitoring Telescope. ( It ill be installed this year)

60 cm Reflector Telescope ( It

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THE CONSTRUCTION AND PUTTING INTO OPERATION OF THE DIGITAL MONOCHROMATIC HELIOGRAPH

This equipment will allow us to make researches using a digital camera equiped with a birrefringent Halpha filter.

Obtain images of the solar chromosphere by the spectral line in the wavelength of 656.3 nm neutral hydrogen.

Observe structures like dark filaments, active magnetic regions, eruptive bumps and quiescent bumps.

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CONSTRUCTION AND PUTTING INTO OPERATION OF THE DIGITAL SOLAR SPECTROGRAPH

This instrument will allow us to measure the properties of the various emission lines and absorption lines.

Determine the equation of state that characterize the plasma that is part solar chromosphere and solar photosphere.

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THE COELOSTAT

SECUNDARY MIRROR

PRIMARY MIRROR

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STUDY OF SOLAR ACTIVITY

Continue records of sunspots by the projection method with the 15 cm Takahashi refracting telescope .

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PROJECTION METHOD

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FORMAT DRAWING OF SUNSPOTS

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PICTURES OF SUNSPOTS TAKEN BY THE CAMERA NIKON SERIES COOLPIX 5000

Sunspots Number ( R ) and Observational Constant (K)are sent to Solar Influences Data Analisys Center (SIDC) in Brussels

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PICTURES OF SOLAR STATION

SOLAR TOWER

OFFICES

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RESIDENCE

SOLAR STATION ENTRANCE

SOLAR SPECTROGRAPH

SOLAR TOWER

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60 CM REFLECTOR TELESCOPE

FLARE MONITORING TELESCOPE (FMT)

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CONCLUSIONS

It is important to carry out this joint project between the U.N.ICA and NAOJ-IGP, and assisting the development of Astronomical Science in Peru.

The development of the basic sciences wil be guaranted when the university students, teachers and researchers work together.

The Solar Station will be useful for the study at different levels of university education and also for the general public.

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2007 EARTHQUAKE

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Thank you for your atention