Astronomy 210 - SunSites WebLab

corona [Geoff Siegel]

• science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/corona.htm
  • science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/Yohkoh_920508.jpg
  • science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/green_line_corona.jpg
  • science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/ecl1991a.jpg
• umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spartan/the_corona.html - good description and lots of words
• www.boulder.swri.edu/~hassler/eclipse98/ - page with movie file
• www.boulder.swri.edu/~hassler/eclipse98/movie_bg.gif - movie file link
• csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/corona.html - site with good description and a few good pics
• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide12.jpeg - good pics
• csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/redsun_soho.jpg - good pics
• science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast22jun98_1.htm - 3-D pictures of corona from 2 different angles and superimposed on top of eachother. But the pictures don't look like the corona. They look like pictures of apple pealings or something...
• soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/TRACEpodoverview.html - best images of Sun and corona
• Individual pictures from TRACE
  • soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/images/062500_06UT_195_test.gif
  • soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/images/T171_0602_14UT.gif
  • soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/images/TRACE171_991106_023044.gif
  • soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/images/T171_000529_130518.gif
  • soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/images/T171_000527_144107.gif
  • soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/images/T1216_000720_85647color.gif
  • soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/images/T171_980610_204029.gif
  • There are more from that site, a lot that may be useful for other subjects, especially solar flares and prominances and stuff like that...
• www.nso.edu/sunspot/esfwww/pics.html - Evans Solar Facility images
  • www.nso.edu/sunspot/esfwww/gifs/eclipse9107.jpg
  • eclipse images
    • www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0399.html
    • www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0398.html
    • www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0397.html
• star.mpae.gwdg.de/indexe.shtml - LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph) site I found has a few good thumbnails of the corona, and seems to have a few good links
  • star.mpae.gwdg.de/9605c1ro.html
• LASCO movies: lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/public_movies.html - main movie page
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/aaas/xmas_c3.gif
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/aaas/xmas_c2.mpg
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/movies/jan15_big.mpg
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/movies/sep27_28msk_c2.mpg
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/movies/dec29msk_c2.mpg
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/movies/mar21_shratc2.mpg
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/movies/mar29_02ac3.mpg
• star.mpae.gwdg.de/gallery/LASCO/ - alternate site for LASCO movies
• lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/public_images.html - more LASCO images -- check out this site
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/color/991222.gif
  • lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/aaas/c1.gif
• star.mpae.gwdg.de/release/moviee.html - different LASCO movie files
• star.mpae.gwdg.de/release/movie/mpg/9608c1c2_low.mpg - great movie
• star.mpae.gwdg.de/release/movie/mpg/961018c1.mpg - great movie

CME (coronal mass ejections) and aurorae [Alison Koleszar]

• sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ - The SOHO website, including great CME movies and images (check out the ÒBest of SOHOÓ)
• www.cosmiverse.com/space10260104.html - Click on image of Earth to see video of conjugate aurora
• science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/cmes.htm - Great movie showing one month of coronal mass ejections (link at bottom of text)
• science.msfc.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast27mar_1.htm - CME Cannibalism
• science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast13sep_1.htm - Nice CME video
• image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/storm1/cme.html - Series of images showing impressive CMEs
• solar.physics.montana.edu/press/ssu_index.html - Great general website about CMEs, particularly those on the face of the sun
• www.windows.ucar.edu/teacher_resources/flipbooks/CME.pdf - Make your own CME flipbook!
• www.spacew.com/www/aurora.html - Current auroral activity, including a map showing areas where it can currently be seen.
• www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/polar/ - NASAÕs Polar Spacecraft Program
• www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/polar/gallery.html - Index of aurora images and movies from the Polar Spacecraft
• www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/polar/polar_pwi_sounds.html - The sounds of the aurora

sunspots [Nicole Cassano]

• antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/cossc/apod_search?sunspots
• csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/sunspots.html
• www.bbso.njit.edu/movies.html
• helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunspot.html
• es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/g_sunspots.html - Galileo sunspot drawings
• spaceweather.com/sunspots/history.html
• astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/RAS/RAS/IMAGES/sungreen.jpg
• science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/sunspot1.jpg
• www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/esfwww/gifs/minmax.jpg
• www.windows.ucar.edu/sun/movies/lapalmasurfmot.mpeg
• www.chesapeake.net/~osprey/sunspots.html
• www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/MWLT/quick_movie.html
• www.sunblock99.org.uk/sb99/people/KMacpher/properties.html
• www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/pr/answerbook/sunspots.html#q134
• soi.stanford.edu/press/ssu11-01/
• www.marcush.netsun.html
• www.enchantedlearning.com/subjectssun/sunspots.shtml
• www.sunspotcycle.com/ - sunspots and the solar cycle
• es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/sunspots.html
• vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/sun/sunspot.html
• www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots/
• zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Sun/sunspots.html
• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/slides/slide3.html
• www.astropix.com/HTML/G_SOLAR/SUNSPOTS.HTM
• www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/sun/images/spot_gran.crop.med_jpeg_image.html

plages [Graham Savio]

• pictures
  • www.nso.edu/sunspot/dstwww/sunpic.html
  • csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/image740704.jpg
  • www.bbso.njit.edu/Images/image961126.jpg
  • csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/eruptive_promS.swf
  • www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/pr/cakzoo.html
  • www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/pr/halphazoo.html
  • www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/turmon/solar/plage-detail.html
• pages
  • www.pvamu.edu/cps/Sun_Images/2001/Jan01/01jan19.html
  • science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/chromos.htm
  • www.nso.noao.edu/synoptic/synoptic.html
  • science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/feature2.htm
  • csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/
  • www.sec.noaa.gov/solar_images/index.html

granulation [Joe Martin]

• science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/feature1.htm
• www.space-art.co.uk/html/diagrams/fdiagrams.html
• www.iwf.de/iwfeng/3medien/33db/333/d2008_1.html
• www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d3/02641a.jpg
• www.nso.edu/sunspot/dstwww/gifs/im262.gif
• pauldunn.dynip.com/solarsystem/classic/sun.html#Structure

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ITEMS FROM 1998

suspots - magnetic fields [J.Frank]

• science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast19oct98_1.htm
• spencer.nott.ac.uk/~etzpcm/buoyancy.html
• zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Sun/magnetic.html
• zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Sun/sunspots.html
• www.astro.uva.nl/michielb/sun/vlekken.htm
• www.astro.uva.nl/michielb/sun/kaft.htm
• www.exploratorium.com/sunspots/index.html
• antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap971106.html
• www.astro.umd.edu/~white/text/active_region_images.html

corona [B.Oaks-Lee]

• www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/research/
• bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov/~batchelo/daveb.html
• umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spartan/images/hao_slide_012a.jpg
• umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spartan/images/sxt_930225.gif
• umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spartan/images/composite.gif
• science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/Yohkoh_920508.jpg
• science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/eit020.jpg
• science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/images/yohkoh_920508.jpg

convection [M.Krco]

• www.windows.umich.edu/sun/atmosphere/photosphere.html
• www.psc.edu/science/Woodward/Woodward-smoke.html
• quake.stanford.edu/~sasha/MOVIES/td_may27_3f.gif
• www.ast.cam.ac.uk/HST/press/gl752.html

solar flares, coronal mass ejections [L. Roller]

• www.hia.net/kjsmith/radio/r2flare.htm
• hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/flareimage.htm

corona (eclipses) [L.Heilig]

• umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse/images/eclipse_images.html
• www.saic.com/home/solar/prediction.html
• www.comet-track.com/eclipse/secl98/secl98.html
• www.comet-track.com/eclipse/secl98/secl98_cor_n.html
• www.eclipsechaser.com/index.html
• www.skypub.com/eclipses/eclipses.shtml
• www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/
• eclipse.span.ch/august22.htm
• umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse.html

oxygen [J.Sanders]

• www.mpae.gwdg.de/mpae_projects/SUMER/text/picture_lnk.html

prominences [M.Lyndaker]

• legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/prominence.html
• www.sunspot.noao.edu/gifs/prom1.gif
• www.sunspot.noao.edu/gifs/hedgerow.gif
• www.sunspot.noao.edu/gifs/loops.gif
• solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/Spotlight/SunInfo/promin.html
• mesola.obspm.fr/gallery/images/prominences/prominences.html
• csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/prominences.html
• ispec.scibernet.com/student-pages/sun97/flares.html
• ispec.scibernet.com/student-pages/sun97/flares3.html
• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide7.html
• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide6.html

plages (chromosphere) [J.Ward]

• science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/feature2.htm#Plage
• csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/prominences.html
• msgc.engin.umich.edu/sun/atmosphere/chromosphere.html
• hpcc-k12.gsfc.nasa.gov/gessep/serverhome/gessep98/aceproject/inv1/slideshow3.html

transition region [A.Hock]

• www.nso.noao.edu/diglib/corona.htm
• www.nso.noao.edu/~nsoclear/
• antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970106.html
• umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spartan/the_corona.html
• antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap961221.html
• mbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html#TRACE_MOSAICS
• www.sunspot.noao.edu/CORONA/

spicules (chromosphere) [K.Sinusas]

• www.bbso.njit.edu/images/image950000.jpg
• condor.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/spicules.html
• esf.sunspot.noao.edu/gifs/spicules.gif
• science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/feature 2.htm

X-ray Sun [C.Barrett]

• Barrett's site
• xrtpub.harvard.edu/Xray/xastro.html
• xrtpub.harvard.edu/Xray/absorption.html
• solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/ProjectionRoom/latest/sxt/full/sxtdag_512.gif
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/raw/sun/xsun.jpg
• http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/ULSHOME/GIFS/Stone_figure.GIF
• solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/Movies/sun_diver.mpg

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ITEMS FROM 1996

plages

• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide2.html
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/sun.htm#views

granules

• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide3.html
• www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/research/exp_solar/egranulen.html
• davinci.csun.edu/~nuclear/.WWW/DD.html

filaments-prominences

• www.astro.uva.nl/michielb/sun/vlammen.htm
• solar.uleth.ca/solar/Images/
• solar.uleth.ca/solar/Images/96100516.gif *
• www.hao.ucar.edu:80/public/slides/slide8.jpeg
• www.hao.ucar.edu:80/public/slides/slide7.html
• www.hao.ucar.edu:80/public/slides/slide6.jpeg

solar wind

• umtof.umd.edu/pm/
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/raw/sun/plrplms.jpg
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/sun.htm#views
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/raw/sun/sunc.avi (needs driver)
• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide13.html
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/sun.htm#views
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/raw/sun/sunc.avi (needs driver)
• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide13.html

sunspots

• sundog.caltech.edu/daily/image.html
• hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide3.html
• hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide2.html
• hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide1.html
• hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide5.html
• hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slide4.html

coronal streamers

• umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest_mk3.gif
• www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/

general

• cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/apod/lib/sun.html
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/sun.htm
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/sun.htm#views
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/raw/sun/index.htm
• cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/hotimage/sun.html
• www.ccsn.nevada.edu/Planetarium/SolarPict.html

flares

• umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar_connections/HESI.html
• antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951025.html
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/raw/sun/halphafl.jpg
• bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/raw/sun/halphafl.gif
• antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950813.html

helioseismology

• esd.gsfc.nasa.gov/SAVB/SH93/Article75.html
• soi.stanford.edu/general/helioesismology.html
• helios.tuc.noao.edu/graphics/cut-away.gif

misc

• www/sunspot.noao.edu/PR/halphaZoo.html

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