The Large Horizontal Solar Telescope ATsU-26

The Large Horizontal Solar Telescope ATsU-26 was established at Terskol Peak (Northern Caucasus) in 1989. The telescope is equipped with 5-camera spectrograph, thus it allows simultaneous observations in five spectral regions. The telescope was used mainly for photografic observations of solar flares in early 1990s. Since 1992 the telescope belongs to the International Centre for Astronomical, Medical and Ecological Research (ICAMER) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Government of Kabardino-Balkaria.