India Follows its Lunar Mission by Sending a Spacecraft to Study the Sun

Amid its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, India launched another satellite headed towards the Sun. The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, is bound for the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange Point, located 1.5 million km from Earth. This will give it a perfect perspective to watch the Sun, similar to NASA's SOHO mission. It will reach its destination in about three months and then use seven instruments to observe the Sun, its atmosphere, and the solar environment.

#solarastronomy

https://www.universetoday.com/163060/india-follows-its-lunar-mission-by-sending-a-spacecraft-to-study-the-sun/

India Follows its Lunar Mission by Sending a Spacecraft to the Sun

Amid its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, India launched another satellite headed towards the Sun. The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, is bound for the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange Point, located 1.5 million km from Earth. This will give it a perfect perspective to watch the Sun, similar to NASA's SOHO mission. It will reach its destination in about three months and then use seven instruments to observe the Sun, its atmosphere, and the solar environment.

#solarastronomy

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/world/india-sun-probe-aditya-scn/index.html

New Detailed Images of the Sun from the World’s Most Powerful Ground-Based Solar Telescope https://www.universetoday.com/161859/new-detailed-images-of-the-sun-from-the-worlds-most-powerful-ground-based-solar-telescope/ #danielkinouyesolartelescope #nationalsciencefoundation #solarastronomy #heliophysics #solarphysics #solarstorms #sunspots #sun

55min animation of a large #prominence on NW limb of the #Sun from 13:04 BST 04/06/23. A video was taken every 5mins from #Oxfordshire, UK. #CoronadoPST, 2x Barlow + #ASI120MC. N is ~10deg clockwise #SolarAstrophotography #SolarAstronomy

#Sun in #HAlpha Sunday 4th June '23 from #Oxfordshire, UK. #CoronadoPST H-alpha solar telescope, 2x Barlow +#ASI120MC camera. North is ~ 10deg clockwise. Several #Prominences visible + #Sunspots #AR13326 #AR13320 #AR13323 #AR13321 & #AR13319 looking lovely. Full details are on my Flickr page if you want to know more #ActiveRegions #SolarAstronomy #SolarAstrophotography

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The Sun, our star, this morning in the light of excited calcium ions. Highlighting the active regions and large scale plasma convection cells, the magnetic fields on the Sun are spectacular #science #astronomy #solarastronomy

My favorite solar image of the day

A spectacular image from today - it has it all (OK not really spectacular sunspots) AR 3152 in the upper RH (north eastern quadrant of the solar disk), great filaments in the southern hemisphere, gigantic prominence visible off the south western limb, flares off the south eastern limb - zoom in this image has amazing detail! More images from today to follow but this was just a beautiful example of why we observe the Sun.

Images taken from a cloud free Albert Park in inner Melbourne. Lunt130MT scope on an iOptron CEM70G mount and ZWO ASI174MM camera. H alpha images (656.5nm) Lunt double-stacked 130mm etalons. Images captured using Firecapture, and processed in AutoStakkert!3, RegiStax6 and Photoshop. #astronomy #solarphysics #solar #solarastronomy #sunspots