Koronas-Foton - a new Russian spacecraft to explore the Sun! |
Koronas-Foton - a new Russian spacecraft to explore the Sun! |
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Jan 3 2009, 12:23 PM
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http://www.newsinfo.ru/news/2008-12-15/sputnik/174938
Russia will launch a new spacecraft to study the Sun - Koronas-Foton (or Coronas-Photon). Launch is scheduled to occur on 29th of jan 2009. This is supposed to be the last launch of a Tsyklon rocket. Once launched Koronas-Photon will be placed into a cirtular orbit 500kms above the Earth. Orbital inclination - 82.5 deg. |
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Jun 8 2009, 08:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Keep the updates coming! I shared some of these images and videos with our 6th grade science class
I too depend upon you since my Russian is lacking. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jun 9 2009, 07:33 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617 |
The Google translation app is getting pretty good these days: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev...history_state0=
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Viva software libre! |
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jun 19 2009, 09:42 AM
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A new update:
http://www.tesis.lebedev.ru/info/mass_ejection_20090614.php Koronas-Foton registered new major release of substances from the Sun |
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jul 6 2009, 12:03 PM
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NEW IMAGE:
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6669 A huge solar flare has been photographed |
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jul 23 2009, 05:57 PM
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http://www.tesis.lebedev.ru/info/tesis_20090722.php
Koronas-Foton successfully photographs the Solar eclipse. This mission is wonderful! PS: There are also several video files published |
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Jul 23 2009, 06:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I like how the targeting system tries to keep the center of the bright surface at the detector center. Once the Moon bites out a bit the "average" center starts to shift
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Jul 23 2009, 11:52 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Cool indeed! The slewing adds an odd sort of immediacy. Wish I could read Russian to fully enjoy the site.
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jul 24 2009, 09:41 AM
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Cool indeed! The slewing adds an odd sort of immediacy. Wish I could read Russian to fully enjoy the site. OK, I will try to help you (Russian is close to Bulgarian and I almost have no problems): http://www.tesis.lebedev.ru/info/tesis_20090723.php According to this publication the culmination of the Solar Eclipse occurred together with the strongest magnetic storm in the past 7 months. http://www.tesis.lebedev.ru/upload/files/kp_20090722.png The green color on the chart means normal magnetosphere, orange - excited magnetosphere, red color - magnetic storm. G1 is a very weak storm G2 - average storm, G3 - strong storm G4 - very strong storm G5 - extreme storm. So according to the chart the storm during the Solar eclipse is close to G2 = average storm. I'm also able to read: The storm was unexpected. The Sun is very calm now and there are no spots on the surface. In the last few days there were no coronal mass ejections detected. |
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Jul 24 2009, 05:43 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Thank you very much, Z! Looks like the Sun is showing signs of coming out of this prolonged minimum, finally.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 26 2009, 12:40 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
So great that they are releasing nice images and movies. When Coronas-F imaged an eclipse, images were next to impossible to come by.
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Aug 1 2009, 09:03 AM
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And there's more! Looks like we have a LIVE IMAGE page entitled "Solnce Segodnya" which means "The Sun Now" in Russian:
Here it is: http://tesis.lebedev.ru/sun_pictures.html Several hints: изображение фотосферы = image of the photosphere. изображение магнитного поля = image of the magnetic field изображение короны = image of the corona изображение солнечного ветра = image of the solar wind. изображение переходного слоя = ?? (don't know how to translate it properly)... |
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Aug 1 2009, 09:15 AM
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http://tesis.lebedev.ru/
I noticed that the main page has several important additions. The first one is "Прогноз космической погоды" which means "Space Weather Forecast"... There's information about 'Магнитные бури в последние 24 часа" which means "Magnetic Storms in the past 24 hours". If you see something like: "Не наблюдались", this means that there are no Magnetic storms observed. "Магнитные бури в ближайшие 24 часа" is a forecast for the next 24 hours. If you see "Не ожидаются" or something like that - it means that no Storms are expected. This is the current forecast for tomorrow. "Текущая активность Солнца" shows the current activities of the Sun. "Поток радиоизлучения" means "A stream of electromagnetic radiation" or something like that. The next two fields mean "Average planetary A-index" and "Average planetary Kr-index". I really don't know what this means. Maybe you will help me? The next addition is "Группы пятен и активные области" - This shows the current status of the solar spots and areas of activities. If you read "Нет активных областей" this means there are no active areas observed. |
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Guest_Sunspot_* |
Aug 1 2009, 10:15 AM
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But aren't those SOHO images?
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Aug 1 2009, 10:19 AM
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Looks like the currently images are of SOHO. Not sure if this is temporary, but I hope so! They are very, very, very outdated compared to the images published on the official website of SOHO.
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Aug 17 2009, 07:05 PM
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http://www.tesis.lebedev.ru/info/tesis_20090811.php
A summer without activities... This is the headline I may try to translate later |
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