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State Road 6563, also known as the Sunspot
Scenic Byway, is a 15 and ½ mile long two-lane state highway in Otero County,
New Mexico.
NM 6563 begins at the National Solar Observatory at
Sunspot in the Lincoln National Forest. It then travels northward to its
northern terminus at NM 130.
NM 6563 takes it number from the wavelength of the Hydrogen-alpha
spectral line (6563 Ầ)
used by scientists at the observatory to study the solar chromosphere and to
locate solar flares on the Sun.
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