The Haute Provence monochromatic heliograph (1958-1994)
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2024

Bernard Lyot invented the monochromatic birefringent filter in 1933 in order to investigate the coronal emissions of solar structures above the limb with the coronagraph installed at the Pic du Midi observatory. The filter was improved later and he made the first observations of the chromosphere above the solar disk in 1948, at Meudon. After his death, Grenat and Laborde continued the development in the frame of the coming International Geophysical Year (IGY 1957-1958). A modern H$α$ heliograph