Solar physics and Space Weather: Solar Orbiter spacecraft (4/5)

by Cis Verbeeck (Royal Observatory of Belgium), Daye Lim

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 09:30 → 12:00 Europe/Brussels

Online

The fourth lecture in this series will introduce the Solar Orbiter mission.

Solar Orbiter is a mission that carries six remote-sensing instruments and four sets of in situ instruments. The ultimate highlighted feature of the mission is to image the Sun the closest ever and image the Sun’s polar regions for the first time. One of the scientific payloads, the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager is operated from the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

The last part of this lecture will be a tutorial on how to visualise solar data using a tool, JHelioviewer, which is a software optimised for enabling users to access, browse, and find interesting scientific targets as efficiently as possible.

If you want to play with solar data yourself, jHelioviewer is free to install on your computer. 

Practicalities

This is an online course. Registration is free of charge but obliged. The course will be in English.  

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This series of lectures is set up in support of the newly established solar research group at the Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.