CHAIN-Project and Installation of the Flare Monitoring Telescopes in Developing Countries

The Flare Monitoring Telescope (FMT) was constructed in 1992 at Hida observatory in Japan to investigate the long-term variation of solar activity and explosive events. It has been part of the international coordinated observations program (STEP) since 1991. The FMT consists of five solar imaging telescopes and one guidescope. The five telescopes SIMULTANEOUSLY observe the full-disk Sun at different wavelengths around H-alpha absorption line or in different modes. Therefore, the FMT can measure the vector velocity field of moving structures on the full solar disk without the visual effect due to the seeing. We want to monitor solar flares and erupting filaments continuously as much as possible by using several of such simple and characteristic telescopes. We are then planning to execute "Continuous H-alpha Imaging Network (CHAIN)-project". As part of this project, we are examining the possibility of installing of the telescopes in developing countries with being supported from the United Nations. More precisely, we are currently examining Peru as a candidate country where the 1st oversea FMT will be installed. On the other hand, we still have a lot of items that should be investigated in various respects in advance, such as the natural environment, the seeing condition, the best structure of the telescope for Peru and the human environment, etc. In this paper, we introduce characteristics of the FMT, some scientific results and our plans of installing the FMT in Peru.