Interesting Pictures of the Sun

[IndianaBoys]

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SOHO LASCO C3 September 22, 1999

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SOHO LASCO C3 August 13, 2008

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SOHO LASCO C3 June 24, 1998

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SOHO LASCO C3 October 28, 2010

[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 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:








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SOHO LASCO C3 July 22, 2009

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SOHO LASCO C3 August, 26, 2001

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SOHO LASCO C3 February 2, 2005

[bhaas]

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

Thanks

[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

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SOHO LASCO C3 January 12, 2007

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2 M Class Solar Flares Today

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Corona - Total Solar Eclipse

One of the most spectacular sights in all of nature is the corona during a total solar eclipse. The corona is the sun's atmosphere. It actually extends far out into the solar system, well past the Earth.

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