CASTEL: Capodimonte Antarctic Solar TELescope

The program of the CONCORDIASTRO/Italy project consists of the installation of a 40 cm telescope at Dome C. This telescope will be used to acquire time-series of filtergrams in the visible at both medium and high spatial resolution, with the aim to qualify Dome C for solar observations. In case the expectation of very good seeing at Dome C will be confirmed, this site will allow long-lasting, high spatial resolution data that are needed for many scientific purposes; one example, of interest for our group, is the study of small seismic events that are considered the best candidate to excite the solar global oscillations. This contribution focuses on the project planning of CONCORDIASTRO/Italy and on the telescope named CASTEL (Capodimonte (or Concordia) Antarctic Solar TELescope).