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Roble Honored with Bowie Medal

Roble with peers

HAO is privileged to announce that Dr. Ray Roble was awarded the William Bowie Medal. He received AGU’s highest honor for his pioneering research into Earth’s upper atmosphere at this year’s AGU meeting in San Francisco.

Precise Solar Photometric Telescope (PSPT)

PSPT on spar

PSPT on its spar at MLSO

ChroMag Optics Testing

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 Helium-I Imager

CHIP on MLSO spar

CHIP on the MLSO spar

PICS & Coronado H-alpha Imagers

PICS on MLSO spar

PICS on the MLSO spar

Coronado SolarMax H-alpha Imager

This will be the Coronado instrument page.

COMING SOON!

COronal Multi-channel Polarimeter

The CoMP instrument (see Tomczyk, et al. 2008) can observe the coronal magnetic field with a full FOV in the low corona (~1.03 to 1.5 Rsun), as well as obtain information about the plasma density and motion. Like Solar-C, CoMP records the intensity and the linear and circular polarization (Stokes I,Q,U,V) of the forbidden lines of Fe XIII at 1074.7 nm and also at 1079.8 nm.

Solar Maximum Mission Coronagraph

This will be the SMM instrument page.

COMING SOON!

Mk3 & Mk4 Coronameters

Mk3 on spar

Mk3 on the MLSO spar

COSMO K-Coronagraph (K-Cor)

K-Cor on the Spar

K-Cor on the MLSO spar

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