1.6 Meter Solar Telescope in Big Bear - The New Solar Telescope (NST)

新泽西理工学院与夏威夷大学合作，将对其大熊太阳天文台进行升级，将其主要的65厘米口径望远镜更换为现代的离轴1.6米净口径仪器。这一新的望远镜将在地面红外和高角分辨率能力方面提供显著的增量改进，它还将加强国家了解太阳光球磁对流和色球动力学的努力。这些都是被广泛称为“空间天气”的内在驱动因素和根源：这是一个影响人类技术和地球上生命的关键问题，也是多机构国家空间天气计划的重点。尽管这些科学上的好处很重要，但预计从这一发展中获得的教育机会和优势可能更深远。新泽西理工学院将保持其独特的前沿地位，培训与精密光学和仪器设计相关的快速发展技术的下一代工程师、物理学家和天文学家。目前的65厘米望远镜将捐赠给草原景观农工大学，以取代他们现有的35厘米太阳望远镜。通过收购一台研究级太阳望远镜，作为Prairie View教育工作重点的代表不足的学生将获得宝贵的日地研究问题的接触和培训。

The New Jersey Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii, will upgrade its Big Bear Solar Observatory by replacing its principal 65 cm aperture telescope with a modern off-axis 1.6 m clear aperture instrument. This new telescope will offer significant incremental improvement in ground-based infrared and high angular-resolution capabilities, and it also enhances the national effort to understand solar photospheric magneto-convection and chromospheric dynamics. These are the intrinsic drivers and origins of what is broadly called "space weather": a critical problem that impacts human technologies and life on Earth, and which is the focus of the multi-agency National Space Weather Program. As important as these scientific benefits are, the educational opportunities and advantages expected to accrue from this development are perhaps more profound. The New Jersey Institute of Technology will maintain its unique cutting-edge position in training the next generation of engineers, physicists and astronomers in the rapidly developing technologies associated with precision optics and instrument design. The current 65 cm telescope will be donated to Prairie View A&M University, to replace their existing 35 cm solar telescope. Through this acquisition of a research-class solar telescope, under-represented students who form the focus of Prairie View's educational efforts will gain valuable exposure and training in solar-terrestrial research problems.