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Post by wd7z on May 15, 2010 6:19:14 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. WoW! Thanks. I love that java script stuff. There are 50 images in 2 hours time. The only way I would be happier is if they would do the same with the entire sun and give a choice at to how many images to load, like 50 to 500. Seemingly boring portions of the sun may not be boring any more. 193 A? Are they dialing in a passband? |
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Post by SDJ on May 15, 2010 15:21:55 GMT
the entire sun
They seem to be experimenting with the preferred wavelengths, with 193 A appearing to be the favorite, much like 195 from SOHO.
There is one page so far at the Imsal SolarSoft site with full-disk images. Go to the "Latest Event Archive" and select 3-May-2010. There are three yellow "AIA" buttons very near the May 1 line in the blue graph. Select the rightmost of the three and scroll toward the bottom of the page it brings up.
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Post by George Kominiak on May 16, 2010 14:42:55 GMT
Hey Guys!
From the SDO Homepage...
SDO Day 93: SDO Becomes an Operating Mission
Fri, 14 May 2010
SDO was declared an operational mission today at the Goddard Space Flight Center. This means we have shown the spacecraft and instruments are ready to collect science data. The science teams are working on making that data available to the scientists and space-weather public.
In addition there are images ("The Sun Today" at 10-single wavelengths plus composites) posted on the site under "Data."
G.
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Post by George Kominiak on May 21, 2010 18:32:45 GMT
Hey Guys, Check out SDO's "Pick of the Week." It's a nice view of the current large filament... "Dark Filament This SDO close-up of a filament and active region, taken in extreme UV light, shows a dark and elongated filament hovering above the Sun’s surface (May 18, 2010). The bright regions beneath it, which show where heating is going on in the magnetic field, send up shafts of plasma that trace magnetic field lines emerging from them. Filaments are cooler clouds of gas that are suspended by tenuous magnetic fields. They are often unstable and commonly erupt. This one is estimated to be at least 60 Earth diameters long (about 500,000 miles)." Attachments:
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Post by superkuh on May 24, 2010 14:14:31 GMT
I've been watching that filament via SDO AIA too. I've made some 1080p videos of May 23rd and 24th that I find very pretty. I only wish they would give the public (me) more than one image every 15 minutes when they are taking ~90 every 15 minutes. (make sure to select 1080p resolution)  23rd full 171,193,304: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJVDAGMpDDQ24th till 12 UTC 171,193,304: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ5hARdgC54I keep a mirror of SDO AIA images, superkuh.ath.cx/SDO/ , since sdowww.lmsal.com/suntoday only has one image per wavelength per day available in archives. In that directory my perl scripts also compile daily movies very 10 minutes but my bandwidth is only 200KB/s so I post the more spectacular footage to youtube/vimeo/etc. I mirrored SolarSoft's copies for a while too and noticed they came in pairs one minute apart separated by ~15 minutes. This made for jerky video. I think the only high cadence extreme ultraviolet space telescope with data open to the public is proba2's SWAP, which I also make daily movies of: superkuh.ath.cx/proba2swap/ . It is nice to fill in the gaps missed by the high space (but low time) resolution SDO AIA. |
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Post by superkuh on Jun 12, 2010 5:29:12 GMT
There was a M2.0 flare today (June 12th). The SDO AIA telescopes captured it well. I, again, have compiled a low time resolution but high spatial resolution video using the frames I mirrored from the near-real time website.  SDO AIA M2.0 Solar Flare from Emerging Active Region 1081 beta on 2010-06-12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_--0YLixU0 |
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Post by rbateman on Jul 12, 2010 12:50:47 GMT
NASA does not understand color when it comes to handling bands too close together. Thier AIA composites reflect this. 211 and 193 are almost on top of each other. www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/SDO_latest.jpgThat is how you handle the balance job. |
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Post by csspider57 on Jul 12, 2010 19:24:10 GMT
Good job Rob.  |
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Post by Peter Gurney on Jul 13, 2010 13:20:10 GMT
Rob, Fantastic color rendition! What to you think about the SDO 3D view of the Sun?  Using a high resolution computer display and a good pair of 3D glasses, you would almost believe that the Sun is rotating on the screen as you change your viewing position. To date I have resisted the temptation to look behind my display to get a view of the far side of the Sun. It is that real! NASA has some useful links: Pick of the Week for July 2, 2010: Got 3D? sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/potw.php?v=item&id=15 Create your own 3D images stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/classroom/3d.shtmlNow I don't feel so bad about the high quality set of 3D glasses I purchased before I realized that 3D Google Street View was part of a elaborate April Fools Joke by Google. Yes, I knew that the “Print Your Own 3G Glasses” PDF was an April Fools Joke but I though the 3D service was real, particularly after it was available for almost a week after April 1. If you don't already have them, get yourself a set of 3D glasses. Peter |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Aug 27, 2010 19:38:02 GMT
The Beginning of the End for SOHO
A link to a brief message was left on the SOHO Latest Images Page:
SOHO/EIT is operating at a reduced image cadence
At the end of 2010 July, EIT has completed fourteen and a half years of synoptic observations of the low corona. SDO AIA images at much higher resolution and time cadence are now available for all the EIT wavebands, and three other EUV wavelengths as well. The telemetry bandwidth that has been used by EIT will be used by LASCO to improve the cadence of its observations of the fastest CME's. EIT will continue to obtain a couple of "synoptic sets" of images in all four wavelengths per day to track detector behavior, and to maintain the uniform data set.
While the initial impact is very good it will only be a matter time before the ground station assets used to downlink the increased volume of LASCO Images will be required for other projects. MESSENGER will be inserted into orbit around Mercury next March. Maybe Leif might know of when future cutbacks will come with SOHO's downlink time ?
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Post by lsvalgaard on Sept 4, 2010 21:18:30 GMT
The Beginning of the End for SOHOA link to a brief message was left on the SOHO Latest Images Page: SOHO/EIT is operating at a reduced image cadence
At the end of 2010 July, EIT has completed fourteen and a half years of synoptic observations of the low corona. SDO AIA images at much higher resolution and time cadence are now available for all the EIT wavebands, and three other EUV wavelengths as well. The telemetry bandwidth that has been used by EIT will be used by LASCO to improve the cadence of its observations of the fastest CME's. EIT will continue to obtain a couple of "synoptic sets" of images in all four wavelengths per day to track detector behavior, and to maintain the uniform data set. While the initial impact is very good it will only be a matter time before the ground station assets used to downlink the increased volume of LASCO Images will be required for other projects. MESSENGER will be inserted into orbit around Mercury next March. Maybe Leif might know of when future cutbacks will come with SOHO's downlink time ? No, I don't. We are a bit at the mercy of the comms people. They can decide on their own when the time has come. Be thankful for every bit we get. |
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Post by dianne11ca on Sept 19, 2010 21:26:06 GMT
;D This just reported on the SDO website: At 11:00 am EST this morning HMI began opening their door. This door protected the front window and optics from damage but can now be opened to let the Sun shine in. Sunlight was used to illuminate the front window and study the optical performance of the telescope. A sunspot could be seen in these engineering images. Noon: Here are the HMI team members who did the commanding in the MOC, congratulations HMI!  Is that an image of the sun on the monitor just to the right of the guy on the far left ? Leif, these guys aren't going to win any awards for keeping a secret. During the past hour or so I have read from page 1 of this thread up to this point on page 11 and the suspense over NASA releasing SDO's first images is just killing me. Then this photo appears with the accompanying remarks and I just about fell off my chair laughing. What a tension-breaker! And thank you to the SDO website for the sneak peek LOL Moving forward now, gotta see SDO in action SOON, I hope! (I love good suspense!)  Di |
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Post by dianne11ca on Sept 19, 2010 21:55:42 GMT
Rob, Fantastic color rendition! What to you think about the SDO 3D view of the Sun? Using a high resolution computer display and a good pair of 3D glasses, you would almost believe that the Sun is rotating on the screen as you change your viewing position. To date I have resisted the temptation to look behind my display to get a view of the far side of the Sun. It is that real! NASA has some useful links: Pick of the Week for July 2, 2010: Got 3D? sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/potw.php?v=item&id=15 Create your own 3D images stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/classroom/3d.shtmlNow I don't feel so bad about the high quality set of 3D glasses I purchased before I realized that 3D Google Street View was part of a elaborate April Fools Joke by Google. Yes, I knew that the “Print Your Own 3G Glasses” PDF was an April Fools Joke but I though the 3D service was real, particularly after it was available for almost a week after April 1. If you don't already have them, get yourself a set of 3D glasses. Peter I am in awe. What an education. Thanks to all here who helped with my enlightenment on all things SDO.  Di |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Oct 18, 2010 14:45:47 GMT
This from NOAA
Today's Space Weather
Updated 2010 October 18 14:40 UTC
GOES 15 becomes Primary X-ray satellite on October 28
October 13, 2010: GOES 15 will replace GOES 14 as the SWPC Primary X-ray satellite on October 28. GOES 14 is being put into storage mode.
GOES-14 eclipse season continues through October 21.
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Post by Bob k6tr on Oct 22, 2010 22:43:49 GMT
Goddard's SDO website will be down until midday Saturday for maintenance
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