Oslo Solar Observatory

✍ Scribed by Eberhart Jensen

• Book ID: 104641426
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 862 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0938
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00147006

✦ Synopsis

The Oslo Solar Observatory is part of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, which is operated by the University of Oslo. While the institute building is located at the University campus, Blindern, the observatory is situated near Harestua about 45 km to the North in a forest region at an altitude of 590m (longitude: 43 m 0~.7 E; latitude: 60~

The construction of the observatory was started in 1952 at the initiative of Professor S. Rosseland and the inaugural ceremony took place in May 1954.