Specola Solare Ticinese, Locarno

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- Sergio Cortesi left us. Doyen of professional and amateur astronomy in Ticino, former director of the Specola Solare Ticinese, with 64 years of activity in the Sunspot observations, among the founders and then long-time president of the Società Astronomica Ticinese, Sergio Cortesi is no longer with us. We will miss him very much.
- RSI La 2 broadcasted on 22th Feb. 2020 a documentary about the activity of Serigio Coresi at the Specola
- Faculae, spots, flares: Solar research at ETH Zurich story published by ETH-library, where the activity of the Specola Solare Ticinese is also mentioned.
- Archiving project of Specola Solare Ticinese sunspot drawings in collaboration with ETH-Zurich University Archives and GCOS