The Sun Today: Directory to the Latest Solar Images and Interplanetary Data (executive version without thumbnails)

The observations below have been collected from a number of Web sites that can be reached for detailed information and caveats by clicking on the highlighted labels. The images are generally the most recent available, but are not usually for the same time.

Visible Light Images

White light image from Big Bear Solar Observatory (California)

White light image from Mees Solar Observatory (Hawaii)

SOHO-MDI Intensity gram from Stanford University Solar Group

White light image from ISOON-NSO Sacramento Peak (New Mexico)

H-alpha image from ISOON-NSO Sacramento Peak (New Mexico)

H-alpha image with limb darkening removed from ISOON-NSO Sacramento Peak (New Mexico)

image from Big Bear Solar Observatory (California)

H-alpha image from Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (Hawaii)

Helium I image from Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (Hawaii)

He I 10830 Å image from SOLIS at the National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak (Arizona)

He I 10830 Å image from ISOON-NSO Sacramento Peak (New Mexico)

Calcium K line image from Mees Solar Observatory (Hawaii)

Calcium K-line image from Big Bear Solar Observatory (California)

Fe I line (5250.2 angstrom) image from Mt. Wilson Observatory (California)

Na I line (5895.9 angstrom) image from Mt. Wilson Observatory (California)

Extreme Ultraviolet Images

SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) Fe XII 195 Å image from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center SDAC

SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) Fe IX,X 171 Å image from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center SDAC

SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) Fe XV 284 Å image from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center SDAC

SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) He II 304 Å image from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center SDAC

NOAA SEC SXI latest images

X-Ray Images and X-ray Flux

Five minute averages of GOES 8,9 x-rays at 0.1-0.8 nm and 0.05-0.4 nm from the NOAA Space Environment Center

Magnetograms

6302 Å longitudinal magnetogram from SOLIS at the National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak (Arizona)

8542 Å longitudinal magnetogram from SOLIS at the National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak (Arizona)

Fe I line magnetogram from Mt. Wilson Observatory (California)

Na I line magnetogram from Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory

Magnetogram from Wilcox Solar Observatory (California)

Magnetogram from the MDI experiment on SOHO

Doppler Images

Dopplergram from the MDI experiment on SOHO

Fe I dopplergram from Mt. Wilson Observatory (California)

Na I dopplergram from Mt. Wilson Observatory (California)

Radio Images

17 GHz image from Nobeyama Radioheliograph (Japan)

Corona and Coronal Holes Images

SOHO LASCO white light image (C1) from the LASCO homepages

SOHO LASCO white light image (C2) from the LASCO homepages

SOHO LASCO white light image (C3) from the LASCO homepages

White-light daily coronameter image from the High Altitude Observatory Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (Hawaii)

FeXIV image from AFRL-NSO Sacramento Peak (New Mexico)

FeX image from AFRL-NSO Sacramento Peak (New Mexico)

He I 10830 Å inferred coronal holes from SOLIS at the National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak (Arizona)

Carrington map of photospheric field from Wilcox Solar Observatory (California)

Carrington map of source surface field computed from the above from Wilcox Solar Observatory

Sunspots and Active Regions

Sunspot number from NSO Sacramento Peak (New Mexico)

Sunspot number from IPS, Sydney, Australia

Sunspot drawing from Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory (California)

Active Region Maps from Mees Solar Observatory (Hawaii)

Solar Wind Information

SOHO Latest 2-week plasma parameters from the University of Maryland experiment

ACE spacecraft real-time solar wind data homepage

If you wish to add your observations to this page please contact jgluhman@ssl.berkeley.edu

• SDAC (Solar Data Analysis Center, Goddard Space Flight Center).

• NOAA SEC (NOAA Space Environment Center)

• SHINE Working Group

• Max-Millennium Site