SOHO-LASCO Images

SOHO-LASCO Images

Christmas '96
Naval Research Laboratory

Released at the AAAS AMSIE '97

A presentation was made at the 1997 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting on February 15, 1997 in Seattle Washington. Images and movies from the Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph Experiment (LASCO) taken during the week of 22-27 December 1996 were made public. LASCO was launched aboard the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft on 2 December 1995.

Pictures

EIT 4 Panel Image Sequence 23
December 1996 (45kB)
Also available in Postscript format (1.2MB)

C1 Coronagraph Images (69kB)
23 December 1996
Also available in Postscript format (1.1MB)

C2 Coronagraph Images 23 (45kB)
December 1996
Also available in Postscript format (4.6MB)

C3 Coronagraph Image (672kB)
24 December 1996 02:50 UT

C2 Coronagraph Image 23 (573kB)
December 1996 04:44 UT

Movies

C3 Coronagraph Movie 22-27 December 1996 Image Cadence ~50 minutes

• Animated GIF (26MB)
• MPEG Movie (6MB)

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