Current solar images
Click on any of the following thumbnail images for the most recent,
full-resolution solar image of each type in the SDAC archive (the time
and date of the image are in square brackets after the description).
While attempts to
reestablish contact with SOHO continue, there are
no new EIT data.
The entire Yohkoh data set up to one year before present is
available for scientific and educational use, thanks to the generosity of the
Yohkoh science team. If you know the dates and times for which you would
like data, and from what Yohkoh instruments, send an e-mail request
to yohkoh_sdac@solar.stanford.edu or
gurman@sdac.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Data requested in this manner can be found
here
via anonymous ftp.
If you are unfamiliar with the Yohkoh instruments or the analysis
software, consult the online
introduction to the analysis of Yohkoh data.
Other resources for solar imagery and
related solar-terrestrial observations:
-
The SOHO Science Planning daily solar images
page: a variety of space- and ground-based solar imagery,
including Nobeyama 17 GHz radio maps
- NOAA Space Environment
Center:recent solar H-alpha images, integrated soft X-ray fluxes,
geomagnetic indices
-
CGRO BATSE solar flare database at the SDAC
- Mt. Wilson
Observatory 150-ft Solar Tower: magnetograms, Dopplergrams, and
"intensitygrams" in two photospheric lines, as well as white-light
sunspot drawings
- Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research
Center of the Communications Research Laboratory (Japan):
solar radio spectra, H-alpha images, geomagnetic data, digital
ionograms, and a variety of other solar-terrestrial data
-
The Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory SXT
home page has even more current images from Yohkoh and a
variety of optical and radio ground-based observatories.
Meudon node of the French
BASS 2000 solar data networked archive serves H alpha,
Ca II K1v and K3, THEMIS magnetogram and dopplergram data, Nancay
radioheliograms, and several other varieties of solar data.
- Lockheed
also serves a Yohkoh movies page that allows downloads in GIF, GIF movie,
MPEG, and Javascript movie formats.
- The Mees Solar
Observatory
of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, located on top of
Haleakala: white-light, Ca II K, and Stokes polarimeter images
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The Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) of the High Altitude Observatory
(HAO): current prominence monitor and white-light coronagraph images
and movies, and now
daily He II 10830 Å images as well
- Daily solar
10 cm microwave flux measurements from Penticton, courtesy of the
Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory, National Research Council Canada
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The Nobeyama Radioheliograph: daily solar images at 17 GHz
- The NSO Sacramento Peak coronal image
and synoptic map representations of daily forbidden line observations
Grey-scale representations of the He I 10830 Å spectroheliograms,
as well as FITS files of the daily magnetogram and He I data, are
available from NSO via the Web or
via anonymous ftp at argo.tuc.noao.edu, under
kpvt/daily.
Full 2038 x 2048 resolution FITS files of the NSO Sac Peak Ca II
spectroheliograms, as well as H alpha FITS and GIF images, are available
via anonymous ftp.
Sorry, we can't guarantee that the most recent image of each type was obtained
in the last 24 hours: curious agglomerations of water vapor and dust called
clouds sometimes appear over observatories on Earth, and even people who
operate spacecraft take a day off from time to time.
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