Submitted by kolinski on March 14, 2014 - 3:18pm
The Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter (CoMP) is being deployed this week!. To make room for this exciting new instrument, PICS had to be decommissioned (see our "PICS Removal Team" to the left) and CHIP had to be moved to another location on the spar. In PICS' place, a Coronado SolarMax60 telescope will be providing Halpha images. Look for upcoming changes to our homepage as these new instruments come online.
Submitted by kolinski on March 14, 2014 - 3:08pm
The High Altitude Observatory and the COSMO K-coronagraph project have funded a new solar dome at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesa Lab. The new dome is the same size (16.5 feet diameter) as the large dome at MLSO and will house the HAO solar-pointed spar, which is a duplicate of the MLSO spar. This new facility will be used to test and calibrate the COSMO K-coronagraph before it is deployed to MLSO in early 2013.
Submitted by kolinski on March 14, 2014 - 2:32pm
Submitted by kolinski on March 14, 2014 - 2:13pm
On June 5th, MLSO observed the last transit of Venus in our lifetimes! Visit our transit page to view movies taken during the event.

PSPT on its spar at MLSO
Submitted by kolinski on January 13, 2014 - 3:39pm
The Chromospheric and Prominence Magnetometer (ChroMag) prototype optics under test on a lab bench at HAO. Monochromatic green light is being passed through 88mm of calcite. This is the thickest stage in ChroMag. The fringes are used to test the alignment of the optical elements and the crystal axes. ChroMag is one of the planned suite of three instruments of HAO’s Coronal Magnetism Solar Observatory (COSMO), and will be used for solar physics research and space weather applications.

CHIP on the MLSO spar

PICS on the MLSO spar
This will be the Coronado instrument page.
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