In order to solve some of the above mentioned solar coronal
measurement challenges, Jeff Kuhn designed the Solar-C telescope
in the early 1990's. Roy Coulter engineered the construction and
then Haosheng Lin built the fiber optic spectropolarimetry
imaging system. Construction was started in October 1998 an
first light was achieved in August 2001. - Jeff Kuhn Ph D.,
Princeton, 1981 Associate Director Institute for Astronomy
Principal scientist and instrumentation specialist - Haosheng
Lin Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1992 Principal research
scientist and spectropolarimetry specialist - Roy Coulter
Principal design and construction engineer - E. John Messersmith
BA Physics, University of Chicago, 1985 Principal control
software design, implementation and maintenance - J. D.
Armstrong Ph.D. University of Hawaii, 2004 Astrophysicist and
principle adaptive optics engineer Solar-C will provide more
accurate coronal measurements in order to explain and better
understand many solar phenomena including: - sun sp