OBSERVING THE SUN & PLANETARY TRANSITS Petr HEINZEL Solar Physics Department Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences Czech Republic.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Determination of 3D structure, avg density, total mass and plasma properties of an EUV filament observed by SoHO/CDS, SoHO/SUMER and VTT/MSDP Pavol Schwartz.
Advertisements

Stars and Galaxies The Sun.
Astronomy at Evergreen, 2003 an update from Dr. E.J. Zita Wed.8 Jan at SPSCC, 8:00 pm for the Southwest Washington Astronomical.
Sunspots, Solar Cycle, and Observing the Sun. What We Don’t Know  What are the precise causes of flares and CMEs?  Why do sunspots cycle in an 11 year.
OUR SUN Unusually active the past 2 weeks Very beautiful.
PH1600: Introductory Astronomy Lecture 12: The Sun’s Atmosphere What is this?
Space weather at University of Graz / Kanzelhöhe Observatory Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria Kanzelhöhe Observatory, Gerlitzen (Austria)
IHY General Assembly, Paris, January 2006 Photospheric flows around sunspots and pores Michal Sobotka Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences.
The Sun’s Dynamic Atmosphere Lecture 15. Guiding Questions 1.What is the temperature and density structure of the Sun’s atmosphere? Does the atmosphere.
Agenda: Here comes the sun April 10 1.Learning Target: I can make a presentation of one aspect of solar study to teach other astronomers about the sun.
Pavol Rapavý and Daniela Rapavá Observations of the Sun at the Rimavská Sobota Observatory Astronomical Observatory Tomašovská Rimavská Sobota.
Physics 202: Introduction to Astronomy – Lecture 13 Carsten Denker Physics Department Center for Solar–Terrestrial Research.
Helioseismic Magnetic Imager and Why We Study Helioseismology Junwei Zhao W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford,
Ingolf E. Dammasch ROB/SIDC Brussels, Belgium Solar UV Spectroscopy with SUMER on SOHO (extended version for 11 Oct 2007)
WIDE FIELD IMAGING OF MERCURY’S TAIL 2nd Meeting of the International Mercury Watch (IMW) Group Observatoire de Paris Observatoire de Paris 5-6 May 2008.
Observing Our Sun and Solar System Jackie Allan Matt Bobrowsky Lou Mayo Christine Shupla Jim Thieman Image: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory:
Show 1 -- photosphere & sunspots SUN COURSE - SLIDE SHOW 3 Show 2 -- corona & solar cycle Today: SOHO.
New Technology Leads to Better and More Detailed Photos of the Sun Sara Whitbeck Physics 1 Fall 2002.
Stephanie Moats Mentor: Kathy Reeves August 2009 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
1 Pedagogical Review on Solar Cycles King-Fai Li Caltech GPS, YL Yung Group Jan 17, 2007.
NEW INSTRUMENTS AND TECHNIQUES 2nd Meeting of the International Mercury Watch (IMW) Group Observatoire de Paris Observatoire de Paris 5-6 May
Extrasolar Planets extrasolar = outside of (external to) our solar system.
The Sun as Seen by NASA W. Dean Pesnell NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center Owens Science Center, October 2009 (The Sun as seen by Miro.)
Solar Instruments for Observing the Sun David Groski Mt Cuba Observatory.
EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL PROGRAMME “VENUS TRANSIT 2004” Borislav Petrov, amateur astronomer, Varna Veselka Radeva Astronomical Observatory,Varna.
Observing the Sun. Corona: EUV; X-rays Chromosphere: H , UV, EUV Photosphere: near UV, Visible light, infra-red.
The Sun and the Heliosphere: some basic concepts…
The Sun Chapter 29 Section 29.2 and Spaceweather.
SOLAR PHYSICS Advanced Space Academy U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
High Resolution Imaging and EUV spectroscopy for RHESSI Microflares S. Berkebile-Stoiser 1, P. Gömöry 1,2, J. Rybák 2, A.M. Veronig 1, M. Temmer 1, P.
For Us, the sun is the provider of Energy; The Provider of Life.
Collaboration of BBSO/NST and SOT Haimin Wang Big Bear Solar Observatory 1. Six-station Global Full Disk Halpha Network –Large scale structure of flares.
Hvar Observatory Faculty of Geodesy Kačićeva 26, Zagreb.
Locating the solar source of 13 April 2006 Magnetic Cloud K. Steed 1, C. J. Owen 1, L. K. Harra 1, L. M. Green 1, S. Dasso 2, A. P. Walsh 1, P. Démoulin.
In Norway. The event was webcasted with images of high quality (full disk, partial disk, H-alpha) from 14 different locations/cameras: - Longyearbyen.
SLIDE SHOW 3 B changes due to transport + diffusion III -- * * magnetic Reynold number INDUCTION EQUATION B moves with plasma / diffuses through it.
New MSDP improvements Advances and prospects P. Mein, MSDP workshop, Tarbes 2006 THEMIS - New CCD cameras - Linear polarization of prominences - New line.
Advanced Solar Theory (MT5810) OUTLINE 1.Observational properties of the Sun 2.MHD equations (revision) 3.Induction equation - solutions when R m >1 4.Magnetic.
December 7, 1631December 9, 1874 December 4, 1639December 6, 1882 June 6, 1761June 8, 2004 June 3, 1769June 6, 2012 Transits of Venus across the disk of.
SUN, EARTH AND SPACE. THE SUN CLOSE UP: INSIDE AND OUT.
The Sun The Sun imaged in white light by the SOHO spacecraft.
Science Lessons Learned from TESIS and their Relevance to SWAP V. Slemzin, LPI PROBA 2 SWT, La Roche, 14 June 2010.
The new CLIMSO* instrumentof Pic du Midi Observatory The new CLIMSO* instrument of Pic du Midi Observatory for studying the disk and the inner corona activity.
The Sun Youra Taroyan. Age 4.5 ×10 9 years Mean diameter 1.392×10 6 km, 109 × Earth Mass ×10 30 kg, 333,000 × Earth Volume 1.412×10 18 km 3, 1,300,000.
Sunspot Telescope Sunspots and surface granulation are the two main features. Telescope: Celestron NexStar 5 mounted on a Losmandy mount. Field of View.
Analysis of 3 and 8 April 2010 Coronal Mass Ejections and their Influence on the Earth Magnetic Field Marilena Mierla and SECCHI teams at ROB, USO and.
17 th November, 2005STEREO/Solar-B Workshop 1 Related Solar Imaging and Near-Earth In-situ Observations of an ICME A. N. Fazakerley 1, L.K. Harra 1, J.L.
Transit of Mercury May 9, Outline A transit of Mercury is about to happen May 9, 2016 Very rare event Visually impressive event Shows the solar.
Space Solar Telescope (SST) —— 申请发改委 “ 十二五 ” 项目 Proposed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
Sunspots, Solar Cycle, and Observing the Sun. What We Don’t Know  What are the precise causes of flares and CMEs?  Why do sunspots cycle in an 11 year.
Solar & Heliospheric Observatory Rayana Thompson & Windell Barfield.
All images and ideas from
Our Sun. About the Sun The sun is by far the largest object in the solar system, containing more than 99.8% of the total mass of the solar system (Jupiter.
The Sun is “hot” Solar Eclipse Workshop May 20, 2017
The Great American Solar Eclipse 8/21/2017
The Sun A cool animation of the Sun can be found on this link, click and scan down. An animation.
(Topic 3. Existing facilities and data bases)
THE SUN.
The sun’s gravity holds all of the planets and comets in orbit
The Sun A cool animation of the Sun can be found on this link, click and scan down. An animation.
The Sun: Portrait of a G2V star
The Sun Our Nearest Star
The Sun Chapter 17.
The Sun The interior of the sun has three layers:
The Sun & It’s Solar System
Chapter 9 The Sun.
NASA/SOHO Satellite Images
Pavol Rapavý and Daniela Rapavá
Filament/Prominence Eruption Corona Mass Ejection (CME)
Sunspots, Solar Cycle, and Observing the Sun
Presentation transcript:

OBSERVING THE SUN & PLANETARY TRANSITS Petr HEINZEL Solar Physics Department Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences Czech Republic

Eclipse observations

Planetary eclipse

Observing the Venus transit means observing the Sun What one can see on the surface of the Sun ?

White-light image

Hα image - Ondřejov Observatory

Full disk in H-alpha line Observatoire de Paris - Meudon

Full disk in CaII line Observatoire de Paris-Meudon

SOlar & Heliospheric Observatory

SOHO-MDI Magnetic field

EIT HeII 304 Å

EIT 195 Å

EIT Flight

SOHO LASCO Coronagraph

La Palma

Dutch Open Telescope (DOT) La Palma

DOT

3D sunspot structure

Coronagraph of the Wroclaw University Observatory

Prominence eruption

TRACE

Ondřejov observatory (near Prague)

Double solar telescope

White-light (WL) image

WL image - detail

WL image

Mercury contact - chromosphere

Mercury contacts

GOOD LUCK FOR VENUS TRANSIT 2004