Current solar images

Click on any of the following thumbnail images for the most recent, full-resolution solar image of each type in the SDAC archive (the time and date of the image are in square brackets after the description).

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Access to full resolution representations of EIT images in all four wavelengths is available at the EIT images page .

	SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field Fe IX, X 171 Å images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [ ]
	SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field Fe XII 195 Å images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [ ]
	SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field Fe XV 284 Å images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [ ]
	SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field He II 304 Å images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [ ]
	Soft X-ray image in the titanium-polyimide ("Ti_poly") filter from the Hinode X-Ray Telescope (XRT) obtained at: [ 2008/05/14 17:39 UT ]
	SOHO Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE) Fe IX, X mosaic 171 Å images from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [ 2008/02/25 02:28:18 UT ]
	Photospheric magnetograms from the U.S. National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak (Arizona) [ 2008/05/16 15:47 UT ]
	He I 10830 Å spectroheliograms from the U.S. National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak (Arizona) [ 2008/05/16 17:04 UT ]
	Ca II 8542 Å magnetograms from the U.S. National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak (Arizona) [ 2008/05/14 16:53 UT ]
	RISE/PSPT Ca II K filtergrams from HAO's Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (Hawaii) [ 2005/10/11 18:00:55 UT ]
	White-light Mk. 4 coronameter images from the High Altitude Observatory Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (Hawaii) --- daily, raw image [ 2008/05/15 21:55 UT ]
	SOHO Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) 6767 Å continuum images from Stanford University [ 2008/05/16 17:43 UT ]

The entire Yohkoh data set is now available for scientific and educational use, thanks to the generosity of the Yohkoh science team. If you know the dates and times for which you would like data, and from what Yohkoh instruments, see:

the Yohkoh archive page, or
the Yohkoh ftp archive

If you are unfamiliar with the Yohkoh instruments or the analysis software, consult the online introduction to the analysis of Yohkoh data.

Other resources for solar imagery and related solar-terrestrial observations:

The Integrated Solar Observing Optical Network (ISOON) site at NSO-Sacramento Peak offers frequently updated, high resolution H-alpha and 6122 Å continuum imagery
The SOHO Science Planning daily solar images page: a variety of space- and ground-based solar imagery, including Nobeyama 17 GHz radio maps
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center:recent solar H-alpha images, integrated soft X-ray fluxes, geomagnetic indices
CGRO BATSE solar flare database at the SDAC
Mt. Wilson Observatory 150-ft Solar Tower: magnetograms, Dopplergrams, and "intensitygrams" in two photospheric lines, as well as white-light sunspot drawings
Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center of the Communications Research Laboratory (Japan): solar radio spectra, H-alpha images, geomagnetic data, digital ionograms, and a variety of other solar-terrestrial data
The Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory SXT home page has even more current images from Yohkoh and a variety of optical and radio ground-based observatories.
Meudon node of the French BASS 2000 solar data networked archive serves H alpha, Ca II K1v and K3, THEMIS magnetogram and dopplergram data, Nancay radioheliograms, and several other varieties of solar data.
Lockheed also serves a Yohkoh movies page that allows downloads in GIF, GIF movie, MPEG, and Javascript movie formats.
The Mees Solar Observatory of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, located on top of Haleakala: white-light, Ca II K, and Stokes polarimeter images
The Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) of the High Altitude Observatory (HAO): current prominence monitor and white-light Mk. 4 coronagraph images and movies, and now daily He I 10830 Å images as well
Daily solar 10 cm microwave flux measurements from Penticton, courtesy of the Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory, National Research Council Canada
Daily solar images and photometric parameters from the San Fernando Observatory, California State University/Northridge
The Nobeyama Radioheliograph: daily solar images at 17 GHz
The NSO Sacramento Peak coronal image and synoptic map representations of daily forbidden line observations

Grey-scale representations of the He I 10830 Å spectroheliograms, as well as FITS files of the daily magnetogram and He I data, are available from NSO via the Web or via anonymous ftp at argo.tuc.noao.edu, under kpvt/daily.

Full 2048 x 2048 resolution FITS files of the NSO Sac Peak Ca II spectroheliograms, as well as H alpha FITS and GIF images, are available via anonymous ftp.

Sorry, we can't guarantee that the most recent image of each type was obtained in the last 24 hours: curious agglomerations of water vapor and dust called clouds sometimes appear over observatories on Earth, and even people who operate spacecraft take a day off from time to time.

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