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
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- Europe (3707)
- Western Europe (743)
- Belgium (18)
- Exact location (4.3589 E, 50.7979 N)
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Pentax Optio S7
Taken on 31
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2007
Submitted on 15 June 2012
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Alexis Merlaud (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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