Hercules A

Hercules A
Radio-Optical View of the Galaxy Hercules A - Many thanks to: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Interesting non-Io-A, at Nancay on 111025-111026





Many thanks to the Nancay Decametric Array Team at the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory, and Professor Imai Laboratory at Kochi National College of Technology in Japan

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Juno Observatory Instrumentation - On its way to Jupiter, arriving in 2016


Non-Io-B followed by Io-A, at Nancay on 111023

 Non-Io-B below
 Io-A below


Many thanks to the Nancay Decametric Array Team at the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory, and Professor Imai Laboratory at Kochi National College of Technology in Japan

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Io-B on 111018 followed by non-Io on 111018-111019, at Nancay

 Below 3 illustrative Io-B dynamic spectra


 Below 3 illustrative non-Io dynamic spectra


Many thanks to the Nancay Decametric Array Team at the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory, and Professor Imai Laboratory at Kochi National College of Technology in Japan

Monday, October 17, 2011

Jovian and Solar activity at Nancay on 111017

 Io-B

Below some significant type III Solar events



Many thanks to the Nancay Decametric Array Team at the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory, and Professor Imai Laboratory at Kochi National College of Technology in Japan

Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Big Bear Solar Observatory New Solar Telescope - One of the two largest aperture Solar telescopes in the world

The Big Bear Solar Observatory is operated by the New Jersey Science and Technology University (NJIT - New Jersey Institute of Technology):
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/

My many thanks to Claude Plymate for showing me this wonderful instrument.


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I refer to Cao et al. 2010:
http://solar.njit.edu/preprints/cao1454.pdf
for a description of the Scientific Instrumentation

Additional papers at:
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/nst_instr.html

Image Gallery:
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/nst_gallery.html
AR NOAA 11109 observed with the NST/TiO imager on Sept 27, 2011
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/gallery/nst_tio_20100927_172539.jpg
click images for full size view

1.6 meter primary mirror backside, with support cell mechanical actuators partially visible.

The Telescope is an off-axis Gregorian Instrument
Power dispersing assembly at the primary focus
Movable counter weight with motor in the tube to the right
Polarizers
Second of a series of mirrors steering the light beam to the adaptive optics bench in the lower floor

Adaptive optics bench of the Shack-Hartmann system
The adaptive mirror currently has 97 actuators

About half of the control room displays

Adaptive optics graphics display

Adaptive optics digital display

H alpha Observer Tool

New Solar Telescope Main graphical Interface

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Non-Io-B followed by non-Io-A, at Nancay on 111011-111012







Many thanks to the Nancay Decametric Array Team at the Nancay Radio Astronomy Station of Paris Observatory, and Professor Imai Laboratory at Kochi National College of Technology in Japan.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Solar Stereoscopy and Tomography - Markus J. Aschwanden - 2011

I refer to Aschwanden 2011:
http://solarphysics.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrsp-2011-5/

This is an extremely interesting review paper, 96 pages (19 pages of references) with stunning color graphics. I reproduce 3 figures below, to get your attention !

Dr. Aschwanden is with the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto California.