SDO, (Solar Dynamics Observatory) |
SDO, (Solar Dynamics Observatory) |
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 Feb 4 2010, 11:02 AM
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So it's fingers crossed for the Solar Dynamics Observatory, destined to help the predictions of "space weather".
SDO promises to become an exciting mission as an orbiting solar observatory with multiple high-definition telescopes has never been attempted before…  The prelaunch readiness press conference will be held at 1 p.m. EST, on Monday, 8th February 2010 from the Kennedy Space Center News Center. It will be immediately followed by the SDO science briefing, both briefings will be broadcast live on NASA Television. Launch is set for 9th February 2010 (10:30 – 11:30 a.m. EST). |
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Apr 22 2010, 04:07 PM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 27-August 05 From: Eccentric Mars orbit Member No.: 477 |
On the press conference and EVE instrument:
The solar image on the EVE spectrum image is not a mistake. We designed the instrument almost from the beginning to use an otherwise unused portion of one of the spectrometer CCDs as a pinhole camera - we call it SAM, the Solar Aspect Monitor. SAM has its own hardware including a precision 26 micron pinhole, filter wheel, and its own optical path with a door (one of four on the instrument) that we had to open to get first light. The unexpected thing about it is that we are able to see the sun as well as we do. The SAM image was apparent in the very first CCD image we got down. We weren't expecting to be able to see the limb or active regions this well until years from now, well up into solar max. -- A concerned EVE data processing engineer |
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Apr 23 2010, 04:17 AM
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QUOTE (kwan3217 @ Apr 22 2010, 08:07 AM)  The solar image on the EVE spectrum image is not a mistake. What exactly was said about that? It surprised me when I heard it but I was busy writing down other things so I didn't get what the P.I. said. It seemed weird to me that an image of the Sun showing up so beautifully on a detector would be a "mistake." -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Apr 23 2010, 09:38 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 27-August 05 From: Eccentric Mars orbit Member No.: 477 |
QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Apr 22 2010, 10:17 PM) What exactly was said about that? It surprised me when I heard it but I was busy writing down other things so I didn't get what the P.I. said. It seemed weird to me that an image of the Sun showing up so beautifully on a detector would be a "mistake." From the report on Spaceflightnow.com: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1004/21sdoimages/ QUOTE "Our first image from EVE doesn't look anything like it should," Pesnell said. I may have misinterpreted this, but I remember thinking at the time that it sounded like he said this was a mistake. |
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PhilCo126 SDO Feb 4 2010, 11:02 AM
Sunspot Unfortunately we wont have realtime images like we... Feb 4 2010, 02:10 PM djellison At 130Mbps - we'd struggle to keep up, and to ... Feb 4 2010, 02:17 PM
helvick That's a couple of Petabyte's per annum on... Feb 4 2010, 04:41 PM Sunspot One per hour would be ok Feb 4 2010, 05:36 PM Ron Hobbs nprev,
I think you are going to love SDO as well.... Feb 10 2010, 01:02 AM Explorer1 So when does the mission officially begin? They... Feb 15 2010, 01:22 AM Sunspot April I think Feb 15 2010, 07:58 AM Ron Hobbs Hmmm. The SDO Mission website is down. I hope that... Feb 15 2010, 04:37 PM Sunspot QUOTE (Ron Hobbs @ Feb 15 2010, 04:37 PM)... Feb 15 2010, 08:16 PM Explorer1 "It will take about 3 weeks to circularize SD... Feb 16 2010, 03:52 AM Ron Hobbs The Planetary Society blog was written by fellow S... Feb 16 2010, 05:19 PM PhilCo126 SDO website s back online with news that on Februa... Feb 20 2010, 11:08 AM Sunspot SDO is on Station
Tue, 16 Mar
The third Trim Mot... Mar 17 2010, 08:05 AM kwan3217 For part the way up, one channel of the EVE instru... Mar 17 2010, 09:46 PM stevesliva Neat! Someone help me on the music... somethi... Mar 17 2010, 09:58 PM kwan3217 Beethoven's Ninth, second movement (Molto Viva... Mar 17 2010, 10:49 PM Byran http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010IAUS..264..434S
... Mar 21 2010, 10:28 AM djellison SDO isn't taking the same sort of imagery as t... Mar 21 2010, 11:47 AM Explorer1 http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/project/leostatus... Mar 22 2010, 11:51 PM Sunspot First light is expected very soon Mar 23 2010, 02:13 PM stevesliva HMI door open. Sweet. Mar 24 2010, 05:33 PM kwan3217 EVE instrument: All four doors open, all channels ... Mar 26 2010, 10:26 PM djellison Heard at the UK Space Conference, a STEREO scienti... Mar 27 2010, 02:50 PM Sunspot I think they are opening the doors to the AIA inst... Mar 27 2010, 04:45 PM Sunspot All 4 doors on the AIA instrument successfully ope... Mar 27 2010, 06:52 PM kwan3217 First Light press conference tentatively scheduled... Apr 2 2010, 01:55 PM Sunspot QUOTE (kwan3217 @ Apr 2 2010, 02:55 PM) F... Apr 5 2010, 04:44 PM Stu From SDO's Twitter updates:
"First Light... Apr 5 2010, 05:08 PM Sunspot Massive solar prominence
http://sohowww.nascom.na... Apr 13 2010, 02:06 PM Sunspot Visible in the C3 images now
http://sohowww.nasco... Apr 13 2010, 04:15 PM elakdawalla I wasn't sure what I was going to write about ... Apr 13 2010, 04:30 PM Sunspot Im soooo hoping SDO caught this... can you imagine... Apr 13 2010, 04:59 PM Sunspot And from C3 Apr 13 2010, 05:43 PM kwan3217 SDO started a calibration maneuver at 8:00UTC duri... Apr 13 2010, 08:44 PM Sunspot QUOTE (kwan3217 @ Apr 13 2010, 09:44 PM) ... Apr 13 2010, 10:03 PM djellison It's not like this is the last flare expected ... Apr 13 2010, 10:39 PM Sunspot QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 13 2010, 11:39 PM)... Apr 14 2010, 06:51 AM NickF Direct link for the LASCO C2 movie of the recent m... Apr 13 2010, 10:47 PM stevesliva QUOTE (NickF @ Apr 13 2010, 06:47 PM) htt... Apr 13 2010, 11:27 PM centsworth_II QUOTE (NickF @ Apr 13 2010, 05:47 PM) (in... Apr 14 2010, 01:00 AM nprev No, not at all. IIRC, SOHO's picked up more th... Apr 14 2010, 01:12 AM Stu All this activity is really making me want to buy ... Apr 14 2010, 05:25 AM Ant103 Some pics taken by french amateur here
http://www... Apr 14 2010, 09:57 AM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (Ant103 @ Apr 14 2010, 01:57 AM) So... Apr 14 2010, 03:59 PM Sunspot Here's the eruption taken from the full size ... Apr 14 2010, 08:46 PM Sunspot Great view from STEREO Ahead !!!!... Apr 16 2010, 08:02 AM Sunspot 18 hours from STEREO AHEAD
http://farm5.static.fl... Apr 16 2010, 08:33 AM Sunspot And a half size, full frame animation - 4.5MB
htt... Apr 16 2010, 09:06 AM pjam Thanks for posting these views..! Looking forw... Apr 18 2010, 02:55 AM Tman Have you taken a seat already? http://sdo.gsfc.nas... Apr 21 2010, 02:00 PM Ron Hobbs QUOTE (Tman @ Apr 21 2010, 07:00 AM) Have... Apr 21 2010, 06:14 PM ugordan Presser now starting on NASA TV. Apr 21 2010, 06:18 PM stevesliva An extra link from a friend:
http://aia.lmsal.com... Apr 21 2010, 04:35 PM stevesliva QUOTE (stevesliva @ Apr 21 2010, 12:35 PM... Apr 21 2010, 07:43 PM Stu The SDO Outreach team really seem to have a handle... Apr 21 2010, 05:50 PM djellison Or people might go ( like I did a while ago ) ... Apr 21 2010, 05:52 PM tedstryk QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 21 2010, 05:52 PM)... Apr 21 2010, 06:37 PM Stu Yeah, but then they actually *look* through a tele... Apr 21 2010, 05:57 PM djellison Umm.
WOW Apr 21 2010, 06:45 PM Ron Hobbs As "Lika" said, "... struck with aw... Apr 21 2010, 06:49 PM Hungry4info I only attempted to download one, but didn't h... Apr 21 2010, 08:55 PM Ron Hobbs I was poking around the SDO First Light web page a... Apr 21 2010, 09:18 PM stevesliva Edited my previous links to the actual HTML page r... Apr 21 2010, 10:12 PM deglr6328 OHH EM EFF GEE......
*dies*
......no w... Apr 21 2010, 10:30 PM nprev SDO might just be the mission that finally convert... Apr 21 2010, 10:52 PM Stu QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 21 2010, 11:52 PM) SDO... Apr 22 2010, 05:20 AM Explorer1 Like MRO/LRO all over again!
Quite a trio we... Apr 21 2010, 11:34 PM nprev No worries. She married a sleazy cigar-smoking rob... Apr 22 2010, 05:37 AM Sunspot I wonder why they didnt go with the same colour sc... Apr 22 2010, 06:50 AM Sunspot Here's the SOHO EIT 171 image taken at about t... Apr 22 2010, 07:11 AM stevesliva QUOTE (kwan3217 @ Apr 23 2010, 05:38 PM) ... Apr 24 2010, 12:00 AM kwan3217 QUOTE (stevesliva @ Apr 23 2010, 06:00 PM... Apr 24 2010, 04:09 AM dilo Perhaps I missed the information within thread... ... Apr 25 2010, 06:55 AM Stu V cool...
"SDO shows Earth eclipsing Sun... Apr 22 2010, 05:36 PM Explorer1 Those comparison images really drive home the diff... Apr 23 2010, 02:12 AM Stu Come on, you knew it was coming...
http://astr... Apr 23 2010, 05:45 AM Hungry4info Yeah, the way it was worded made me think it was a... Apr 23 2010, 10:09 PM Sunspot SDO Day 76: Getting Ready for Science Data
Mon, 2... Apr 27 2010, 08:48 PM stevesliva More prominence vids:
http://science.nasa.gov/scie... Apr 27 2010, 11:25 PM jrdahlman Now that we have "real-time" images of t... Apr 28 2010, 03:21 AM Hungry4info I would imagine that since not a lot of things occ... Apr 28 2010, 03:40 AM nprev The scale of observations should be considered. Ph... Apr 28 2010, 03:55 AM Sunspot There are smaller version available on youtube if ... Apr 28 2010, 06:47 AM Oersted ouch, a hair on the lens?!
Spectacular images... Apr 28 2010, 09:49 AM S_Walker QUOTE (Oersted @ Apr 28 2010, 04:49 AM) o... Apr 29 2010, 06:58 PM Adam Hurcewicz Take a look to most recent images from:
http://sdo... May 10 2010, 06:14 PM Sunspot cool May 10 2010, 06:40 PM Stu Oh man, like my hard drive wasn't groaning alr... May 10 2010, 08:49 PM Stu VERY chuffed - and honoured - to have my "Fir... May 11 2010, 07:08 PM Tesheiner Well done, Stu! May 11 2010, 08:23 PM Sunspot http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
The SDO site now h... May 22 2010, 07:42 PM Sunspot Some fantastic magnetic loops visible in the ... May 24 2010, 04:06 PM Sunspot The SDO images have been looking a little odd late... Jun 1 2010, 07:23 AM Juramike Maybe the sun is too bright?
<ducks> Jun 1 2010, 01:34 PM Sunspot Stunning prominence visible to SDO right now Jun 10 2010, 07:24 AM Stu Gorgeous pic, thanks!
I was really tthinking ... Jun 10 2010, 02:50 PM |
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