Figure 1. SWAP eclipse image sequence from the first passage of the 2017 August 21 eclipse.
UPDATE: The SWAP images are received from the satellite. Check out the pictures and movies below.
Monday, 21 August 2017 has marked an important celestial event, a total solar eclipse. This was a well observed event, as the eclipse transited the whole of North America. The path of the eclipse can be seen here. People along the path saw a total eclipse, and those outside this path witnessed a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun's disk. The eclipse was visible for about two and a half minutes from any location along the path of totality, and first seen on the west coast of the USA in Oregon at around 10:19 am PDT and finally in South Carolina at around 02:44 p.m EDT (more timing information can be found here). For more information on other types of eclipses, visit here.
The PROBA2 PI-team welcomes research proposals for the ninth round of its Guest Investigator program for research based on SWAP and LYRA data analysis by scientists outside the SWAP and LYRA PI-teams. We encourage in particular early-career post-docs and PhD students to apply, although more senior guest investigators' proposals are also welcome.
On July 2, 2019 the so-called Great South American Eclipse
A synoptic map (or a latitude-time map) of the Sun shows the evolution of the Sun over a given period of time in a single image. The PROBA2 team have created a synoptic map of the Sun for whole Carrington Rotations.
The solar poles are relatively unexplored regions of the solar atmosphere, this is due to a lack of satellites that have travelled over and through them. In this article we briefly explore how we can use current instrumentation to generate artificial polar images, and what might be learnt from studying the solar poles.
Two partial solar eclipses were visible this summer: one on 2018 July 13 and another on 2018 August 11.
