The Silesian University of Technology Observatories (SUTO) group’s solar patrol station, SUTO Solar, is designed to collect patrol images of the Sun. The observatory is operated remotely and equipped with a 60-mm Lunt telescope for imaging in the Hα 656.28 nm hydrogen line and an 80-mm Sky Watcher refractor for imaging in the continuum centered at 540 nm. Both telescopes use complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) cameras. A set of environmental sensors measuring temperature, humidity, and pressure provide information about the optical instruments. Real-time full-disk images and archival data are shared via a dedicated web page. In future work, low-resolution images generated by SUTO Solar will be used as training datasets for dedicated machine learning algorithms designed to enhance images acquired by small instruments. |
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