Interesting Pictures of the Sun

[IndianaBoys]

2 M Class Solar Flares Today

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SOHO LASCO C3 January 12, 2007

[IndianaBoys]

What exactly is it that we're looking at???

Thanks

bhaas,

The majority of these are pictures from the SOHO satellite.

The sun is behind the disk.

SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)

LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph)

It is now 16 Years, 7 Months, and 16 Days since SOHO Launched on December 2, 1995!

SOHO travels with the Earth as it revolves around the Sun, but at a distance of 1,500,000 km closer to the Sun.

C3 images have a larger field of view: They encompass 32 diameters of the Sun. To put this in perspective, the diameter of the images is 45 million kilometers (about 30 million miles) at the distance of the Sun, or half of the diameter of the orbit of Mercury. Many bright stars can be seen behind the Sun.

The shadow crossing from the lower left corner or lower right corner to the center of the image is the support for the occulter disk.

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Homepage

Thanks for asking.

Hope that helps.

IndianaBoys

[bhaas]

What exactly is it that we're looking at???

Thanks

[IndianaBoys]

SOHO LASCO C3 February 2, 2005

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SOHO LASCO C3 August, 26, 2001

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SOHO LASCO C3 July 22, 2009

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SOHO Lasco C3 June 2, 1998

MonsieurM,

I believe they have removed the picture you are looking for.

Best I can tell this is the sequence you have an interest in, it is hard to read the date on the smaller picture:








IndianaBoys

[MonsieurM]

do you happen have the date to this one ..... those filaments look interesting

and Thank you for the Amazing work work Compiling these Images IndianaBoys

ps:just a thought ..... it is the smallest pic in this thread so far ( ie the south pole )

[IndianaBoys]

SOHO LASCO C3 October 28, 2010

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SOHO LASCO C3 June 24, 1998

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SOHO LASCO C3 August 13, 2008

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SOHO LASCO C3 September 22, 1999

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SOHO LASCO C3 February 26, 2005