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Post by carddan on Apr 22, 2010 17:12:39 GMT
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Post by Bob k6tr on Apr 25, 2010 3:35:41 GMT
PR Newswire puts out some pretty good stuff. It is more like an Op-ed Column with fact checking. We are still early in the SDO Program and much more will be on the way. |
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Post by carddan on Apr 25, 2010 23:07:54 GMT
Bob, it's a great time to be a novice fan of the sun. It seems that almost all of the theories explaining the mechanisms driving solar activity are about to be put to the test. I look forward to coming here to get updates. The tease "already one theory has been disproved" has me anticipating news.
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Post by scpg02 on Apr 25, 2010 23:41:00 GMT
The tease "already one theory has been disproved" has me anticipating news. I must have missed that. |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Apr 26, 2010 3:54:45 GMT
Alotta STUFF is going to be happening in the next few weeks. SOHO has entered into a Keyhole Period and will re-emerge at the end of the week. A week from tomorrow SOHO will enter a period of continuous contact with DSN for 10 Weeks as the the Michelson Doppler Imager will be used to calibrate HMI on SDO. That period will come to an end in Mid-July. But until then we should be receiving more frequent image updates from SOHO. I don't know if people have noticed but NASA has made substantial cut backs on DSN Time for SOHO over the last few years. Some days we are lucky to get one update per day.
The STEREO Weekly Meeting Minutes have made numerous references over the last few months intimating that NASA is getting anxious to recover the bulk of the DSN time they have allocated for SOHO. So enjoy this treat while it lasts. The SDO Website should have a number of major updates in the coming months, the first will take place in Mid-May. Once SDO is up and running at Full Steam I would expect NASA to order the SOHO Controllers to cut out all of the redundant images and data from their downloads and reduce the number of SOHO DSN Passes to one per day.
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Post by Bob k6tr on Apr 27, 2010 0:40:40 GMT
As if on cue this was posted on SDO's website today:
SDO is moving toward becoming an operational science mission. The data will be available from several sites in a variety of formats. SDO scientists and engineers are working to set up those access points, but we won't be ready for regular data releases until mid-May.
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Post by George Kominiak on Apr 27, 2010 22:11:33 GMT
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Post by hank on Apr 30, 2010 20:08:38 GMT
> SDO
"The black "hair-like object" is a speck of dust on the CCD camera."
Arrrrgh.
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Post by Bob k6tr on May 2, 2010 6:41:32 GMT
> SDO "The black "hair-like object" is a speck of dust on the CCD camera." Arrrrgh. I bet Goddard feels the same way ! ;D Maybe the will figure out a way to whip the satellite around turning an eclpse period in order to make it fly off. ;D |
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Post by Bob k6tr on May 4, 2010 18:02:52 GMT
There is a terse report on the EVE website stating the test experiment was launch yesterday and had a successful mission. Both Goddard and Colorado University are being very tight lipped about it.
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Post by scpg02 on May 4, 2010 23:56:44 GMT
There is a terse report on the EVE website stating the test experiment was launch yesterday and had a successful mission. Both Goddard and Colorado University are being very tight lipped about it. Does anyone besides me have a problem with the lack of information? This was public money that was spent. Transparency is paramount. |
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Post by jcarels on May 5, 2010 20:06:44 GMT
No need to open a new topic for this one (I think) The images from Proba 2 are now (almost) realtime available. sidc.oma.be/news/126/welcome.html(You can open the files with Gimp) |
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Post by SDJ on May 10, 2010 4:18:23 GMT
Anyone else collecting the first SDO images from Imsal SolarSoft? Some different EUV wavelengths in the earlier ones, but they seem to have settled on 4 wavelengths now with the more recent ones, 171, 193, 211 and 304.
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Post by wd7z on May 14, 2010 14:32:31 GMT
Still SDO images are displayed over at Lockhead Martin's SolarSoft website. At this moment, they are about 1 1/2 hours behind real time. Has anyone seen them displayed anywhere else? www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events/ |
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Post by SDJ on May 14, 2010 17:04:07 GMT
Has anyone seen them displayed anywhere else?
Someone noticed a few days ago that if you click on the yellow "AIA" buttons in the middle of the blue graph below the top row of images they will take you to a page where sequences of 50 to 75 or so images in different EUV wavelengths are available for previous events, going back roughly to the first of May. "Playing" the sequences will put the series of images into your temporary internet files folder, and they can be copied from there into another folder so you have permanent copies.
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