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Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory

observatory in Hungary

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ12764423 ↗
Source-derived summary

Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The Observatory provides solar data and images of observation. Study solar flares and sunspots.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory” is observatory in Hungary. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Debrecen, Heliophysical and Observatory, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 35-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Debrecen, Heliophysical and Observatory is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “observatory in Hungary” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q12764423. VIAF identifies the subject as 267974018. The Library of Congress control number is n85202747. Authority coordinates are 47.544, 21.624. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.