CME web links
Solar Maximum Mission Coronagraph
Solar Research Web Links
Coronal Mass Ejection Sites
Skylab White Light Coronagraph
[WLCE]
White light satellite images of the solar corona from NASA's Skylab
Apollo Telescope Mount [1973-1974]. (HAO/NCAR)
Solar Maximum Mission Coronagraph/Polarimeter
[SMM C/P]
White light satellite images of the solar corona from the
Solar Maximum Mission [1980, 1984-1989]. (HAO/NCAR)
MLSO Mark-III K-Coronameter
[MK3]
K-coronameter [pB] images of the lower corona from Mauna Loa, Hawaii
[1979 - present]. (HAO/NCAR)
Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope
[SXT]
Soft X-ray images from the Japanese Yohkoh satellite [1991 - present].
(Lockheed)
SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
[EIT]
Images from the EIT telescope aboard the NASA/ESA satellite [1995 - present].
SOHO Large Angle & Spectrometric Coronagraph
[LASCO]
Images from the LASCO telescope aboard the NASA/ESA satellite [1995 - present].
(NRL)
Fisher-Smartt Emission Line Coronal Photometer
[ELCP]
Sacramento Peak Observatory, Sunspot, New Mexico. (NSO)
Images of synoptic maps of Fe XIV 530.3 nm and Fe X 637.4 nm
(and, when solar activity picks up, Ca XV 569.4 nm),
a line plot of the current daily intensities in Fe XIV,
Fe X and Ca XV at 1.15 solar radii,
a "full-disk" synoptic plot of the Fe XIV (and eventually Ca XV) corona
as it would appear projected against the solar disk currently
and forecast two weeks into the future,
and multi-height images of the Fe XIV and Fe X corona
as currently seen above the limb.
Solar Satellites
Solar Heliospheric Observatory
[SOHO]
Yohkoh Data Analysis Center at Mullard Space Science Laboratory
[MSSL]
Yohkoh Public Outreach Project
[YPOP]
Solar Institution Sites
Big Bear Solar Observatory
[BBSO]
New Jersey Institude of Technology. Located at Big Bear, California.
Features daily solar images taken in Calcium K, H-Alpha, White Light,
and Magnetograms. Both high resolution and full disk images are available.
They also provide information on helioseismology experiments,
a tour of the observatory, and movies of solar phenomena.
Current white light and H-alpha full disk images. (Italy)
Culgoora Solar Observatory
[CSO]
Located 25 km west of Narrabri, in north-west New South Wales, Australia.
Observatory conducts continuous optical (H-alpha) and radio observations
of the sun every day of the year.
High Altitude Observatory
[HAO]
The solar physics research division
of the National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR].
Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center
[HSTRC]
A division of the Communications Research Laboratrory (CRL),
Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, located in Japan.
The HSTRC includes the following sections: Space Weather Forecast,
Solar Physics, Solar Terrestrial Physics, Administration.
Kippenheuer Institute of Solar Physics
[KIS]
The institue conducts experimental & theoretical investigations
of physical processes on and within the sun. Located in Freiburg, Germany.
H-alpha disk images are available from Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife.
Learmonth Solar Observatory
[LSO]
H-alpha and GONG (solar velocity imager) data. Located in western Australia.
Solar & Astrophysics Lab: Lockheed/Martin
[LMSAL]
A department of scientists & engineers who design, build, and operate solar and astrophysical observing instruments.
Marshall Space Flight Center / Solar Physics Branch
[MSFC]
MSFC's Space Sciences Laboratory [SSL] is comprised of 15 scientists involved in various studies of the physics of the Sun. .
Mauna Loa Solar Observatory
[MLSO]
H-Alpha disk and limb composite images and Mark III K-Coronameter data
from the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, Hawaii. (HAO/NCAR)
The Solar Group studies solar flares, magnetic fields on the sun, and
solar oscillations. Also operates Mees Solar Observatory.
Mees Solar Observatory
[MSO]
Located on Haleakala, Maui. Operated by the University of Hawaii.
White Light, Calcium-K, and Stokes Magnetograms.
Solar flares, magnetic fields, solar oscillations.
National Solar Observatory
[NSO]
Current and archive images of full disk magnetograms and Helium 10830s
from Kitt Peak (Arizona, USA).
Features recent Magentogram, Dopplergam, and Intensitygrams.
Includes plage and sunspot index data and plots, sunspot
butterfly diagrams, and a sunspot group count plot.
Sacramento Peak Observatory
[SPO]
Operated by NSO/NOAO, located at Sunspot, New Mexico.
Space Environment Center
[NOAA]
Current and previous month of full disk magnetograms and Helium 10830s
from Kitt Peak.
Full disk and region images in H-alpha from Learmonth, Australia,
Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Full disk H-alpha from Space Environment Lab, Boulder, Colorado.
Solar Data Analysis Center
[SDAC] at Goddard Space Flight Center
Current full disk magnetograms and Helium 10830s from Kitt Peak,
current xray image from Yohkoh satellite,
Ca II K spectroheliograms from NSO-Sac Peak,
and HAO/MLSO Mark-III coronagraph images.
Archived full disk Yohkoh xray images are available also.
Swedish Solar Observatory
[La Palma]
Telescope is owned & operated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in
Stockholm, Sweden. La Palma is one of the islands among the Spanish
Cany Islands off the coast of Africa. The observatory is on a mountain
at an elevation of 2000 meters.
Sunspot observations using a slit spectrograph.
Wilcox Solar Observatory
[WSO]
Daily observations of the sun's global magnetic field began in May, 1975,
with the goal of understanding changes in the sun and how those changes
affect the Earth. This study is now called "Space Weather".
Observatory is located in the foothills west of Stanford University.
Other Solar WWW sites
Lund Observatory (Sweden)
Solar Corona
A discussion of the solar corona.
A collection of images from various web sites.
Solar Eclilpse information.
Solar Eclipse information.
A collection of educational activities based on Solar Oscillations
Investigation (SOI) and Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) data.
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