KIS/SDC contribution to the Horizon2020 ESCAPE project and beyond
KIS/SDC has been the EST representative within the Horizon2020 ESCAPE consortium of ESFRI projects. In January 2023, the current ESCAPE funding is…
SUNRISE III mission launched on its journey along the Arctic Circle ...
... but unfortunately terminated in a few hours after the launch because of a mechanical damage caused during lift-off. Stay tuned!
10 Gbit dedicated link between OT and KIS
Since mid-May 2022, there has been a direct 10 Gbit connection between the German solar telescope on Tenerife and the KIS in Freiburg.
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Prof. Dr. Svetlana Berdyugina appointed as new Director of IRSOL
Prof. Dr. Svetlana Berdyugina has been appointed as Scientific Director of IRSOL Istituto Ricerche Solari “Aldo e Cele Daccò” in Locarno and affiliate…
First Light for SUNRISE III at the Arctic Circle
The balloon-borne 1m solar telescope SUNRISE III has reached an important milestone: First light at the launch site in Sweden for the telescope and…
Call for Observing Proposals 2022B (July 13 to December 2, 2022)
Call for Observing Proposals 2022B (July 13 to December 2, 2022)
New magnetic white dwarfs discovered
A hidden magnetism of known white dwarfs was discovered using a novel approach based on broad-band circular polarization measurements with the…
First accurate measurements of electric currents on the solar photosphere
Scientists at the Leibniz Institute für Sonnenphysik achieve the first accurate measurements of electric currents in the solar atmosphere.
VTF Data Pipeline Prototype
The Visible Tunable Filter VTF, build by KIS, is one of the first-light instrument for the DKIST 4m class solar telescope on Maui. For data…
Construction work on new KIS building has begun
At the end of last year, the time had come: construction of the new KIS building officially began on December 12, 2020. Until the end of the year,…