Development of Solar Observations in Bulgaria: New 30-cm Chromospheric Telescope.

The development of solar observations during the last decades and the growing influence of space-based telescopes turns the ground-based monitoring of the Sun into complementary activity. Nevertheless, new solar telescopes continue to be established as they excel space-borne instruments with the immediate access to the received data and relatively low completion cost. In 2019 a project for establishing a new 30-cm solar telescope in the National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen (Bulgaria) was launched. This paper summarizes the primary goals and objectives of the telescope as well as its stage of construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]