#coronagraph — Public Fediverse posts

NOAA’s SOLAR-1 Enters New Era Of Space Weather Monitoring
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https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaas-solar-1-enters-new-era-of-space-weather-monitoring <-- shared technical article
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https://www.spaceweather.gov/ <-- shared NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) home page
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https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/future-programs/swfo/space-weather-observations-l1-advance-readiness-solar-1 <-- shared SOLAR-1 overview and details page
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https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-environment/space-weather <-- shared overview of space weather and its risk, hazards & impacts
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[I was lucky enough to see the launch from the Kennedy Space Center of GOES-19/U, my first launch - and love reading about the ‘ongoing story’…]
#spaceweather #solar #monitoring #risk #hazard #impacts #humanimpacts #SOLAR1 #SOLAR-1 #SpaceWeatherPredictionCenter #NOAA #NESDIS #earlywarningsystem #monitoring #risk #hazard #mitigation #infrastructure #satellites #electric #powergrid #blackouts #brownouts #transformers #utilities #energy #aviation #nationalsecurity #defence #missileguidance #agriculture #farming #precisionagriculture #GPS #vanigation #transportation #spaceflight #LaGrange #L1 #protection #coronagraph #SWPC #NESDIS #opendata #publicgood #fedservice #fedscience
#NOAA

#ESA:
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Proba-3’s Coronagraph is alive!
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"A month after an anomaly onboard the Proba-3 mission caused ground control to lose contact .. the mission team shares great news: the spacecraft has phoned home, re-establishing the lost connection."

"The Coronagraph is now in safe mode and stable, .."

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3_s_Coronagraph_is_alive

"What happened to the Coronagraph?"
https://blogs.esa.int/proba-3/2026/03/19/what-happened-to-the-coronagraph/

19.3.2026

Yeah!

#Coronagraph #counter #CSC #ESEC #Proba3 #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SafeMode #Software #SpaceFlight

A Satellite Accidentally Captured This Extremely Cool Photo of the Moon https://petapixel.com/2025/08/28/a-satellite-accidentally-captured-this-extremely-cool-photo-of-the-moon/ #CoronalMassEjection #coronagraph #earthshine #satellite #corona #Space #earth #moon #noaa #cme

Had the opportunity to visit a most fascinating solar #observatory Thursday in #Switzerland near #Arosa, the Astrophysikalisches Observatorium #Tschuggen (AOT) which #MaxWaldmeier had built in 1939, which was abandoned in 1980 and which amateur astronomers are now bringing back to the state just at that time: Here are the original Kern #coronagraph and another one from #Zeiss (with a huge spectrograph) it's sitting on. See https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230945670040155 for a picture album, with links to the background in the first comment.

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory Will Search For Life

#Astrophysics #CarbonDioxide #Coronagraph #Eic(earthinformationcenter)display #Exoplanet #HabitableWorldsObservatory #Spectroscopy

⏩ 2 new pictures and 2 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=10&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250708125534

Two European satellites mimic a total solar eclipse as scientists aim to study its corona.

The satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipse by flying in precise formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

Dubbed Proba-3, the €181 million mission has generated 10 successful solar eclipses so far.

ESA released the eclipse pictures at the Paris Air Show on Monday.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250616-two-european-satellites-mimic-a-total-solar-eclipse-as-scientists-aim-to-study-its-corona?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#ESA #Space #Science #Sun #SolarEclipse #Proba3 #Coronagraph

NASA’s CODEX Captures Unique Views of Sun’s Outer Atmosphere https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-codex-captures-unique-views-of-suns-outer-atmosphere/ #NASA #Coronagraph #CoronalDiagnosticExperimentCODEX #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Heliophysics #HeliophysicsDivision #SpaceWeather #TheSun #TheSunSolarPhysics

Experimental demonstration of a quantum-optimal coronagraph using spatial mode sorters: https://opg.optica.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-12-4-518&id=570325 -> Turning down starlight to spot new exoplanets: https://www.optica.org/about/newsroom/news_releases/2025/turning_down_starlight_to_spot_new_exoplanets/ - new #coronagraph could reveal hidden planets beyond our solar system.

Yay, 'live' images from the new solar #coronagraph CCOR-1 are finally available on https://testbed.spaceweather.gov/products/ccor-1-coronagraph though it is still not operational! Can we have another bright small-elongation comet now, please? ;-)

C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) from SOHO LASCO C3 ☀️☄️🪐

#c2024g3 #comet #coronagraph #esa #nasa #space #sun

⏩ 2 new pictures from @stim3on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=2&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250125225239

How the new #coronagraph #CCOR-1 on a weather satellite saw #comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: the view on 8 October at 21:45 UTC, grabbed from the new video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrzOKAxu1jU - the images themselves (more are seen on a computer screen later in the video) don't seem to be available directly yet.

Detecting the K (!) corona with a homemade #coronagraph - apparently this unexpected breakthrough has just been achieved ... in New York: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/944682-k-corona-from-today-2024-11-16-looking-for-confirmation/ and https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/945270-k-corona-confirmed-on-reanalysis/

An M6.5 flare from Active Region 13854 - October 19, 2024 ✨

#Ast #Astrophysics #BRoll #CODEX #Corona #Coronagraph #CoronalMassEjections #EUVImaging

⏩ 1 new picture and 3 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=11&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20241107125602

This is how the new #coronagraph CCOR-1 on the weather satellite GOES-19 sees the solar corona: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-shares-imagery-worlds-first-operational-space-based-coronagraph - the first ever coronagraph designed for "operations" (versus "science"). See also https://x.com/USNRL/status/1848753808068714500 for an animation with different processing!

Enjoy Totality Every Day With This Personal Eclipse Generator https://hackaday.com/2024/06/27/enjoy-totality-every-day-with-this-personal-eclipse-generator/ #ArduinoHacks #coronagraph #homehacks #arduino #eclipse #gantry #window #blind #shade #moon #sun #X-Y

Enjoy Totality Every Day With This Personal Eclipse Generator - There have been a couple of high-profile solar eclipses lately, but like us, you p... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/27/enjoy-totality-every-day-with-this-personal-eclipse-generator/ #arduinohacks #coronagraph #homehacks #arduino #eclipse #gantry #window #blind #shade #moon #sun #x-y

Webb – Space Telescope Live. What Is Webb Observing Now?
https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=01HTJT20C0STKNZ01KQYGEKBQ1
#ycombinator #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Black_hole #Camera #Coronagraph #Cosmos #Countdown #Exoplanet #Galaxy #Hubble #Imaging #Infrared #Integral_Field_Unit #Microshutter #NASA #Nebula #Observation #Observing_schedule #Photometry #Planet #Proposal #Quasar #Research #Scientific_instrument #Scientific_process #Sky_map #Space #Spectrograph #Spectroscopy #Star #STScI #Telescope #Ultraviolet #Visible #Webb

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting Tuesday, June 25, for the launch of #GOES-U, the fourth and final satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R Series: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/nasa-spacex-target-new-launch-date-noaa-weather-satellite and https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/. On board is the Compact #Coronagraph-1 (CCOR-1): details in https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230004075/downloads/CCOR_EGUPoster2023.pdf and https://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/CCOR.html. Differences from the #LASCO coronagraph on SOHO: https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/1772729162358284734 and https://twitter.com/SungrazerComets/status/1772769416846950655. Where CCOR-2 will go: https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/1772729734054494660

On #Webb a new #NIRCam capability that allows for simultaneous #coronagraph imaging in both the short and long wavelength channels is now available to the scientific community: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2023/new-nircam-capability-is-now-available - this new mode was commissioned in June 2023 and shows overall excellent performance, both in collecting the data and in the end-to-end pipeline products.

I've been following this #ESA mission since 14 (!) years when 'around 2012' was the projected launch date (see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/zwei-esa-satellitchen-sollen-ultimativen-koronographen-bilden for what I wrote in 2009) ... and now the two spacecraft making up the #Proba3 mission are actually finished and should launch in 2024: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba_Missions/Proba-3_complete_Formation-flying_satellites_fully_integrated - they'll fly in formation forming a huge solar #coronagraph with one being the occulter and the other observing the #corona of the #Sun.

As predicted #comet 96P/#Machholz is now in the field of view of #SOHO's #coronagraph #LASCO C3 - which updates https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/1024/latest.html only intermittendly.