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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
CHENGDU, June 24 (Xinhua) — Construction of supporting infrastructure for an advanced solar telescope began Tuesday in Daocheng County, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, marking a major step toward a new era of high-precision solar observation.
The 2.5-meter wide-field high-resolution solar telescope, a major national scientific instrument development project, is being implemented under the leadership of Nanjing University in partnership with the Nanjing Research Institute of Astronomical Optics and the Yunnan Observatory, both under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Construction of the telescope officially began in 2022. Once operational, it will be the world’s largest axisymmetric solar telescope.
The telescope’s strategically chosen site on an unnamed mountain in Daocheng County at an altitude of 4,700 meters above sea level offers exceptional conditions: excellent atmospheric stability and unique parameters for solar observations.
This site will be the world’s highest solar observation observatory, creating an important foundation for obtaining world-class fundamental observational data.
The construction of the associated infrastructure and assembly of the telescope module will be completed by the end of 2026, after which a comprehensive adjustment of the entire system will be carried out. -0-