List of solar telescopes
Name/Observatory Aperture d Year ( s ) Location Country ( s )
Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope ( DKIST ) 400 cm 2020- Maui , Hawaii , USA United States
Chinese Large Solar Telescope ( CLST ) 180 cm 2019 - Western part of China China
GREGOR , Teide Observatory 150 cm 2012- Tenerife , Spain Germany
Goode Solar Telescope ( GST ) , Big Bear Solar Observatory 160 cm 2008- California , United States United States
New Vacuum Solar Telescope ( NVST ) , Yunnan Astronomical Observatory 100 cm 2010- Yunnan , China China
Andrei Severny Tower Solar Telescope , Crimean Astrophysical Observatory 90 cm 1954- Crimea -
Multi-purpose automated solar telescope , Sayan Solar Observatory 80 cm - Mondy , Republic of Buryatia , Russia Russia
Large Solar Vakuum Telescope , Baikal Astrophysical Observatory 76 cm 1980- Irkutsk_Oblast , Russia Russia
Optical and Near-Infrared Solar Eruption Tracer ( ONSET ) , School of Astronomy & Space Science , Nanjing University 3x27,5 cm 2010- Nanjing , China China
Bulgarian 15-cm Solar Coronagraph , NAO - Rozhen 100 cm 2005- Rozhen , Bulgaria Bulgaria
Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope ( SST ) , ORM 100 cm 2002- La Palma , Spain Sweden
Prairie View Solar Observatory ( PVSO ) 35 cm 1999- Texas , USA United States
Dutch Open Telescope ( DOT ) , ORM 45 cm 1997- La Palma , Spain Netherlands
THÉMIS Solar Telescope , Teide Obs 90 cm 1996- Tenerife , Spain Italy and France
Vacuum Tower Telescope ( VTT ) , Teide Obs 70 cm 1989- Tenerife , Spain Germany
Hida Domeless Solar Telescope ( ja ) 60 cm 1979- Takayama , Gifu , Japan Japan
Udaipur Solar Observatory MAST Full Disk H-alpha Telescope H-alpha Spar Telescope Coudé Telescope 50 cm 15 cm 25 cm 15 cm 1976- Udaipur , India India
Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope ( DST ) , Sacramento Peak 76 cm 1969- Sunspot Solar Observatory , Sunspot , New Mexico , USA United States
Solar Observatory Tower Meudon 60 cm 1968- Meudon , France France
McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope , KPO 161 cm 1961- Arizona , USA United States
Existing large solar telescopes
This is a list of solar telescopes built in various countries around the world. A solar telescope is a specialized telescope that is used to observe the Sun. This list contains ground-based professional observatory telescopes at optical wavelengths in chronological order. Solar telescopes often have multiple focal lengths, and use a various combination of mirrors such as coelostats, lenses, and tubes for instruments including spectrographs, cameras, or coronagraphs. There are many types of instruments that have been designed to observe Earth's Sun, for example, in the 20th century solar towers were common.