Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

 

Acronym: AISAS

Location: Tatranska Lomnica (Slovakia)

Website: www.sav.sk

 

The Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (AISAS) was established in 1943. In 1955, it became one of the founding institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the organisation that brings together more than 0 scientifc institutes and centres.

The AISAS headquarters are close to Tatranska Lomnica, in northern Slovakia. The institute operates two observatories in the High Tatras, the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory (1,754 m asl) and the Lomnický Štít Observatory (2,634 m asl). The main research activities at AISAS are solar physics (solar atmosphere, Àares, C0Es, magnetic felds, sunspots, prominences), stellar physics, and interplanetary matter research (comets, asteroids, and theory and simulations of the formation of the solar system).

 

 

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