The Quiet Sun

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Description

The bottom panel is an image of the quiet chromosphere of the Sun taken with the Yohkoh soft x-ray telescope. The concentric circles superimposed on the image indicate the location and field of view of two VLA images made on September 23, 1992. The upper left panel shows the VLA image made at a wavelength of 1.3 cm (inner circle), and the upper right panel is a 2 cm VLA image (outer circle).

Creator

Legacy Astronomical Images

Rights

NRAO/AUI/NSF does not hold full copyright for this image. Contact the archivist for details.

Type

Legacy Astronomical Image

Object Name

Sun

Investigators

T. S. Bastian, G. A. Dulk, Y. Leblanc

Telescope

Very Large Array (VLA)
Yohkoh

Observation Date

1992-09-23

Type of Observation

continuum

Center of Image

RA 25:0:0.000, Dec: 0:0:0.000 (J2000)

Field of View

0.550000 x 0.550000 degrees

Link to journal article

Notes

Contact the archivist for a high resolution tif of this image.

Series

Solar System Series

Unit

Sun Unit

Citation

Legacy Astronomical Images, “The Quiet Sun,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/33616.