More Than a Solar Cycle of Synoptic Solar and Coronal Data: A Video Presentation,

Abstract

Color video movies of synoptic observations of the sun and corona can now be created. Individual analog frames on laser discs can be referenced digitally and played back at any speed. We have brought together photospheric magnetic field data from the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford and the National Solar Observatory, model computations of the coronal magnetic field, and coronal data from the Sacramento Peak coronagraph and the Mauna Loa K-coronameter and made a series of movies presenting the data sets individually and in comparison with one another. This paper presents a description of each of the data sets and movies developed thus far and briefly outlines some of the more interesting and obvious features observed when viewing the movies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA194603

Entities

People

  • A. M. Title
  • J. T. Hoeksema
  • M. Herant
  • P. H. Scherrer

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Astrophysics
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Brightness
  • Cycles
  • Data Sets
  • Electron Density
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Observation
  • Observatories
  • Observers
  • Regions
  • Solar Cycle
  • Solar Observatories
  • Space Sciences

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy