Observatory Details

IAGA Code BNG
Name Bangui
Opened 1952-01-01
Closed 2011-06-30
Latitude 4.330 °N
Longitude 18.570 °E
Altitude 395.0 m
Country Central African Republic (CF)
Website bcmt.fr/bng.html
INTERMAGNET Member 1993 - 2010
Notes 2009-08-11: Replaced hourly mean datasets from 1954 to 1990 with recomputed data provided by IPGP.

Observatory closed June 2011.

Contact Details

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Instrumentation

Instrument Type In Use From In Use To
GEM Systems GSM-19 Scalar 1900-01-01
Homocentric fluxgate vector magnetometer IPGP VM391 Vector (HDZ) 1900-01-01
DI-flux (Zeiss theodolite with Bartington MAG01H fluxgate) + GEOMETRICS G856 Absolute 1900-01-01