LASCO Observations of the Solar Corona to 32 Rsun
Abstract
The Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) was launched on board the SOHO satellite on 2 December 1995. The C3 externally-occulted coronagraph of LASCO observes the solar corona over a field from 3.7-32 R_ ⊙, using a 1024x1024 CCD detector with a pixel size corresponding to 56 arc sec. Observations can be made using color filters ranging from the blue (420-520 nm) to the near-IR (860-1050 nm), and through polarizing filters. We report on early observations of the solar corona out to 32 Rsun.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #188
- Pub Date:
- May 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996AAS...188.3717C