Friday, August 26, 2011

CURRENT LASCO C3 - AUGUST 26, 2011 AT 8:30 AM CDT



The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) is one of a number of instruments aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite (SOHO). LASCO consists of three solar coronagraphs with nested fields of view:

LASCO C3, the clear coronagraph picture, has a shutter time of about 19 seconds. LASCO C2, the orange picture, has a shutter speed of about 26 seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASCO_Large_Angle_and_Spectr...