At the Uccle observatory
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At the Uccle observatory

by Alexis Merlaud, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium

The instrument USET (Uccle Solar Equatorial Table, consisting of several parallel telescopes) is used almost every day to count the sunspots. Uccle is one of the base stations of a worldwide network managed by the SIDC (Solar Influences Data analysis Center).

More information and sun images
http://sidc.be/uset/

A typical day for professor david (educationnal)
http://sidc.oma.be/uset/educ/en/domeen.html