Notes
Outline
The Sun: An Overview
Observing photographing, sketching and otherwise monitoring our stellar neighbor
and just a bit on how it all works
Steve Dodder
Stone Haven Observatory
Anatomy of the Sun
PPARC-Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
Solar Magnetic Field
SOHO Spacecraft                                                    National Geographic Magazine
                                                                                 Karel Schrijver & Marc DeRosa
Stellar Spectral classes
Calcium pair
Neutral Iron
Oxygen
Neutral Magnesium
Neutral Sodium
Hydrogen Alpha
NOAO
The Solar Spectrum
Spectral class G2V
NOAO, NSO  McMath-Pierce 2 meter Solar spectrograph  KPNO
The Sun in White Light
More solar scopes
Sunspot Sketch Form
Sunspot Sketch
Solar setup
HA Mask
Hook Prominence
Full Disk HA
BBSO
Full Disk Ca K
Activity on the Sun
Everybody DUCK!
My prominence animation.
Mauna Loa animation of the same event
Swedish Vacuum Scope
Closeup
SOHO-Images From Space
SOHO Instrumentation
CDS (Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer), United Kingdom.
CELIAS (Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System),  Switzerland.
COSTEP (Comprehensive Suprathermal and Energetic Particle Analyzer), Germany
EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope), USA
ERNE (Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron experiment), Finland
GOLF (Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies), France
LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph), USA, Germany
MDI/SOI (Michelson Doppler Imager/Solar Oscillations Investigation), USA
SUMER (Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation), Germany, USA
SWAN (Solar Wind Anisotropies), Finland, France
UVCS (Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer), USA
VIRGO (Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations)
SOHO EIT images
Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
Chromosphere
Orange= 60-80,000 Kelvin-He II
Blue=1 million Kelvin-FE IX/X
Green=1.5 million Kelvin-FE XII
Gold=2 million Kelvin-FE XV
False colors
Coronal Mass Ejections…
…result in this
Solar Rotation
Links
Lockheed/Martin Solar Astrophysics Lab
TRACE spacecraft
YOKOH Spacecraft
www.lmasl.com/
www.lmasl.com/TRACE/
www.lmsal.com/SXT/
SOHO Spacecraft
sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
Big Bear Solar Observatory
www.bbso.njit.edu/
National Solar Observatory
helios.tuc.noao.edu/
My website
www.stargazing.net/Astroman/
MDI Sunspots for Sketching
My sketch
Sunset at S.H.O.
Dave Mello Baader fil C11
BBSO HA 10/22/03
SOHO Mercury Tramsit sequence
SOHO MDI
Phil Rousselle  SHS
Phil Rousselle SHS
ISS, Venus cross Sun