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Piszkés-Tető Mountain Station, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Konkoly Observatory

The Observatory of Piszkéstető is the largest and most equipped astronomical research center in Hungary.

In the research center located the country's largest telescope, this is a Ritchey-Chrétien-Coudé optical telescope with a 102 cm diameter mirror. Here is the Schmidt telescope, which provides thousands of discoveries, and two smaller telescopes also serve the astronomical research.

During the visit the participants can see this telescopes, and they can hear a lecture on the research there.

Here you can find a some information about the observatory: Wikipedia

Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The institute was established in 1954 by Sándor Szalay the founder director.

ATOMKI became independent from the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Kossuth Lajos University, where Sándor Szalay started and directed nuclear physics research for decades. The institute has several accelelators (https://www.atomki.hu/en/instruments), that are used for atom-, nuclear-, and particle physics, ion beam analytics, technique of detection and signal processing, environmental analytics, radioactive dating, etc.

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