The Solar Corona

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Table of contents:
1. Introduction
2. Brief history of coronal studies
3. The coronal spectrum
4. The solar cycle
5. Ground-based observations
6. Observations from space: I. The first 30 years
7. Activity of the inner corona
8. Observations from space: II. Recent missions
9. Solar flares & the corona
10. Solar-terrestrial physics

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See also the Updates/Errata page for this book:
http://www.williams.edu/Astronomy/corona_updates.html

A variety of solar information, including updates on sunspots and daily images through various filters, is available through the homepage for Pasachoff's Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe.

The Original Maunder Diagram



The original butterfly diagram drawn by W. Walter Maunder and Annie S. D. Maunder in 1904 has been on display for some time at the High Altitude Observatory in Colorado.

National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak Coronal Scans on the Web

The National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak announces the resumption of posting of daily coronal scans and maps on its web page at http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/CORONA.

H.Mucke and J. Meeus: Canon of Solar Eclipses, -2003 to +2526

The 1992 printing is available from:
astbuero@astronomisches-buero-wien.or.at

The price, including a diskette with a program to calculate local circumstances as well as mailing by registered surface book post, is ATS 1085.-; for air mail delivery, ATS 190.- should be added. Please send a check in ATS, payable to Astronomisches Bureau, Hasenwartgasse 32, A-1238 Vienna, Austria.

Web sites:
International Astronomical Union Working Group on Eclipses:
http://www.williams.edu/Astronomy/IAU_eclipses
IAU Program Group on Public Education at the Time of Eclipses

references:
Fred Espenak, Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986-2035, NASA Reference Publication 1178 Revised, July 1987.

Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff, Nearest Star: The Exciting Science of the Sun, Harvard University Press, 2001. http://www.williams.edu/Astronomy/neareststar

Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff, The Solar Corona, Cambridge University Press, 1998. http://www.williams.edu/Astronomy/corona

Jay M. Pasachoff, Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe, 6th ed., Brooks/Cole College Publishing, 1998. http://www.williams.edu/Astronomy/jay

                                Provided by Jay M. Pasachoff
                                Williams College, Williamstown, MA
                                        01267, USA
                                Chair, Working Group on Eclipses of
                                the International Astronomical Union

Solar Constant On-Line

The latest values of the solar constant as measured by the VIRGO experiment on SOHO, along with past measurements from several spacecraft, are available on line at
http://www.pmodwrc.ch/solar_const/solar_const.html from the World Radiation Center in Davos, Switzerland.

TRACE Satellite

The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft, launched in April 1998, makes high-resolution observations of these regions of the outer solar atmosphere. TRACE Web sites are at Lockheed and at the Smithsonian Observatory.

Eclipse, Satellite Solar Slides

Eight radial-filter eclipse images from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a variety of coronal images from the Solar Maximum Mission are viewable on the Web and can be ordered as slides.

TRACE

Eclipses Imaged from Space

The views from the GOES satellite in orbit around the Earth showing the progress of the 26 February 1998 and 11 July 1991 eclipses across the face of the Earth are available at

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/software/mcidas_movie.html

The 150-foot tower at Mt. Wilson has a web site at: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/intro.html

And if you want to see if it's clear on Mt. Wilson, check the towercam on the 150-foot tower at: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/towercam.htm

From Solar News, The Electronic Newsletter of the Solar Physics Division American Astronomical Society, Volume 1999 Number 15:

The 60' Solar Tower, at Mt. Wilson Observatory now provides current solar images to the internet community. Daily GIF images are provided every clear morning at: http://physics.usc.edu/solar/

Daily images include a filtergram, dopplergram, velocity map, and magnetogram in the chromospheric sodium D-line region of the solar atmosphere. All GIF images can be viewed at 256x256, 512x512, and 1024x1024 pixel resolution. The original 1024x1024 fits images, from which the gif images are processed, are also included.

Past images can be searched for at; http://physics.usc.edu/solar/search_images/search.html

The 60' Tower continues to acquire two 1024x1024 pixel filtergrams each minute for up to 12 hours per day. From each pair of filtergrams a full- disk dopplergram is computed later. Plots of daily hours of filtergram observations, lists of temporal coverage of computed dopplergrams, and lists of temporal coverage of multi-day time series and power spectra will be provided online in the near future.

Links to Solar Websites, including Daily Images and Spacecraft Descriptions