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).
Access
to full resolution representations of EIT images
in all four wavelengths is
available at the EIT images page
.
Other resources for solar imagery and related solar-terrestrial observations:
- The Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI)
site at NSO offers whole-sky images and animations from the SMEI instrument onboard
the Coriolis spacecraft
- The Integrated Solar Observing
Optical Network (ISOON) site at NSO-Sacramento Peak offers frequently
updated, high resolution H-alpha and 6122 Å continuum imagery
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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 Weather Prediction
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
- Space Environmental Information Service
of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan):
solar radio spectra, H-alpha images, geomagnetic data, digital
ionograms, and a variety of other solar-terrestrial data
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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 Mk. 4 coronagraph images
and movies, and now
daily He I 10830 Å images as well
- Daily solar
10 cm microwave flux measurements from Penticton, courtesy of the
National Research Council (Canada) and National Resources Canada
- Daily solar images
and photometric parameters from the San Fernando Observatory,
California State University/Northridge
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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
A variety of solar imagrey is available from the US National Solar Observatory
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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