The Sun: A Pictorial Introduction

A Slide Set by P. Charbonneau and O.R. White


Introduction

The Slide Set

  1. The solar disk in white light
  2. The solar disk in broadband Ca K
  3. Sunspot and granulation
  4. Solar magnetogram
  5. Magnetogram of active region and sunspot pairs
  6. The Sun in H alpha
  7. The Grand Daddy prominence
  8. H alpha filaments and magnetogram
  9. Total solar eclipse of 1980
  10. Total solar eclipse of 1988
  11. The Sun in X-rays
  12. The solar corona in white light and X-rays
  13. A coronal mass ejection
  14. Two more coronal mass ejections
  15. Solar activity in X-rays
  16. Magnetic flux emergence
  17. The sunspot cycle
  18. The butterfly diagram
  19. Hale's sunspot polarity law
  20. The Corona through the solar cycle

Conclusion: Solar-Terrestrial Interactions
Further Readings
Credits

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-Written by P. Charbonneau and O.R. White, 18 April 1995.

-Revised 30 January 1997 by webmaster@hao.ucar.edu.

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