REPORTS ON TEST OBSERVATIONS WITH THE MULTICHANNEL SOLAR TELESCOPE

In this paper, we have made a report on the test observations with a M ulti-Channel Solar Telescope (MCST), which consists of 60 cm Nine-Chan nel Solar Telescope (NCST), 35 cm Solar Magnetic Field Telescope (SMFT ), 8 cm Full Disc Telescope (FDT), 10 cm Full Disc Magnetic Field Tele scope (FDMFT) and 14 cm H alpha telescope. These observations demonstr ate that the MCST has the following advantages: (a) It can work at mor e than nine visible spectral lines simultaneously. In this way, differ ent solar layers of the photosphere and chromosphere can be observed a t the same time; (b) every channel of the NCST is entirely equivalent to a videomagnetograph, by means of which the vector magnetic fields a nd line-of-sight velocity fields can be measured; (c) real-time monoch romatic images of the photosphere and chromosphere can be obtained wit h the FDT, FDMFT, and H alpha Telescope; (d) high-temporal-resolution full-disk magnetic fields can be measured with the FDMFT; (e) spectral profiles over a large held of view can be scanned with the NCST.