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Institute for Solar Physics
The Institute for Solar Physics (Swedish: Institutet för sol- lar telescope. The 47.5-cm Swedish Vacuum Solar Tele-
fysik) is a Swedish research institute. It is operated as an scope, SVST, was erected in 1985.
independent institute, under the auspices of the Royal The SVST was removed from the tower on 28 August
Swedish Academy of Sciences, but is associated with 2000 after almost 15 years of successful operations. It
Stockholm University through Stockholm Observatory. will get a new life at Chabot Space and Science Center in
The institute was first established as The Research Oakland, CA, US. The SVST has been replaced with the
Station for Astrophysics in 1951 on the island of Capri, Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, which has twice as large
Italy. Around 1980 the station moved to La Palma in the aperture diameter.
Canary Islands. The new station is situated within the
Spanish-International Observatory on the Roque de los
Muchachos. It soon became obvious that the superior as-
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