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Big Bear Solar Observatory

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A solar observatory built on a peninsula in Big Bear Lake, California in 1969, whose surrounding water suppresses the local turbulent air currents that normally blur ground-based views of the Sun. It has produced some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken of sunspots and other solar surface features.

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