The Meudon Solar Tower is a 36.47-metre-tall (119.7 ft) solar tower located at the Meudon Observatory in Meudon, France. The tower houses a 60-centimetre (24 in) solar telescope and spectrograph for observing the Sun.[1][2][3]
 Solar Observatory Tower Meudon in 2019 | |
| Location | Meudon, France |
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| Coordinates | 48°48′16″N 2°13′38″E / 48.80444°N 2.22722°E |
| Established | 1964 |
  Location of Meudon Solar Tower | |
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Construction of the tower began in 1963, and it was commissioned in 1969.[4] The shaft of the tower has a diameter of 6.6 metres (22 ft), and, at a height of 30.57 metres (100.3 ft), the tower has an observatory floor with a diameter of 18.4 metres (60 ft). The shaft of the tower consists of two concrete tubes which are separated by a 10-centimetre-wide (3.9 in) air spelt in order to avoid wind induced vibrations.
References
edit- ↑ Bhatnagar, A.; Livingston, William Charles (2005). Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy. World Scientific. ISBN 9789812567871.
- ↑ Mein, P. (September 1977). "Multi-Channel Subtractive spectrograph and filament observations". Solar Physics. 54 (1): 45–51. Bibcode:1977SoPh...54...45M. doi:10.1007/BF00146423.
- ↑ Mein, P.; Malherbe, J.-M.; Sayède, F.; Rudawy, P.; Phillips, K. J. H.; Keenan, F. P. (February 2021). "Four Decades of Advances from MSDP to S4I and SLED Imaging Spectrometers". Solar Physics. 296 (2). arXiv:2101.03918. Bibcode:2021SoPh..296...30M. doi:10.1007/s11207-021-01766-9.
- ↑ "The solar tower of Meudon". Observatoire de Paris - PSL. 2 July 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
See also
edit- Paris Observatory
- List of towers
- List of solar telescopes
- Meudon Great Refractor (nearby telescope facility dating to 1891)
External links
edit- Skyscraperpage.com
- Video The building of the Solar Observatory Tower, by Roger Servajean, on Paris Observatory digital library
