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Solar instrumentation is a vast field — it embraces all experimental means to research the Sun. At an observatory — the most comprehensive entity — several facilities may be operated. Each facility includes a telescope, sometimes a specialized telescope, which is equipped with one or several post-focus instruments, like spectrographs and filtergraphs, and detectors. The equipment is controlled by specific hardware and software. The collected data is analyzed using equally specialized software packages. An observatory may be ground based or space based. All have in common that their prime use is for solar research; research on nighttime sources is rarely done with these instruments.
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Von Der Lühe, O. (2001). Solar Instrumentation. In: Hanslmeier, A., Messerotti, M., Veronig, A. (eds) The Dynamic Sun. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 259. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0760-3_2
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