Swedish solar telescope: Short summary of instrumentation and observation techniques

Abstract

A short summary of the design concepts of the Swedish Solar Telescope at La Palma, is given along with the most important parts of the instrumentation and observing techniques. Our experiences from using high-speed read-out CCDs for solar observations are also discussed. The advantages of this data aquisition system are that it allows real-time frame selection for achieving high spatial resolution, that several cameras can be slaved by one seeing monitor, and that bursts of digital images can be recorded for full spatial coverage of small parts of active regions.