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On June 21, 2020 an annular eclipse took place, reaching its maximum at 06:40 UTC. The annular phase of this solar eclipse was visible from parts of Africa (including the Central African Republic, Congo, and Ethiopia), south of Pakistan and northern India, and China.

The PROBA2 team continuously works on improving the LYRA and SWAP data: the calibration routines for both instruments are updated regularly, and the latest version is always available, for example through SolarSoft.

All SWAP Images Available from the Mercury Transit on November 11 2019.

In preparation for the 2019 Mercury transit, the PROBA2 team have made a high cadence image campaign throughout the day. A movie made with all the SWAP data is shown below. All of our SWAP data products for this Mercury transit are now available here.

On July 2, 2019 the so-called Great South American Eclipse took place. The total eclipse path ran over parts of Chile and Argentina, where the Moon was seen to move in front of the Sun and blocked the sunlight out completely.

The image on the right shows a coronal cavity observed by PROBA2/SWAP along with its associated filament as seen in SDO/AIA data. Coronal cavities are believed to be the low-density cross sections of magnetic flux ropes.

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 PROBA2 team is pleased to announce the 17th PROBA2 Science Working Team (SWT) meeting, which will be held on Tuesday November 13, 2018 at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, between 15:30 - 17:30 local time (i.e. CET) in the Nadir room.