Time Allocation Committee of the Vacuum Tower Telescope, operated by the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics (KIS, Germnay) at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain), granted our team led by H. Woehl (KIS) with a 8-day observing campaign for our observing proposal entitled 'Spectroscopy of the solar photosphere'. The team members are A. Kucera, J. Koza and J. Rybak (AISAS, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia) and A. Hanslmeier (IGAM, Graz, Austria).
Simultaneously our team has applied also for complementary context tomography to be performed by the Dutch Open Telescope (DOT) ir order to support our spectroscopic measurements to be acquired at the VTT from 8th until 15th July 2004.
Additionally our request for the space-born support of the TRACE satellite was approved by the TRACE team. Finally due to conditional circumstances it was realized that also SOHO/TRACE JOP 171 led by our PhD student Peter Gomory could profit from our coordinated operation of the VTT and DOT telescopes as like as the TRACE support. Therefore new runs of his JOP 171 were requested to be performed using JOP 171 core instrument - CDS spectrometer onboard SOHO satellite and this request was fulfilled by the CDS PI.
We are happy to manage such unique opportunity of the cooperating simultaneous observations and we hope everything will run smoothly this July at Tenerife and La Plama Canary Islands as well as on the polar orbit of TRACE and in L1 point where the SOHO satellite is positioned.
Our observing campaing will be supported by the Slovak grant agency VEGA, german scientific agency DGF and by two projects founded by the European Union - ESMN and hopefully also by OPTICON.