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Instrument: LASCO : Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph |
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Associated Platforms SOHO Spectral/Frequency Information Wavelength Keyword: Ultraviolet Number Channels: 3 Spectral/Frequency Resolution: 0.07 nm Related Data Sets View all records related to this instrument Description The Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO) instrument is one of 11 instruments included on the joint NASA/ESA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. The LASCO instrument is a set of three coronagraphs that image the solar corona from 1.1 to 32 solar radii. It is convenient to measure distances in terms of solar radii. One solar radius is about 700,000 km, 420,000 miles or 16 arc minutes. A coronagraph is a telescope that is designed to block light coming from the solar disk, in order to see the extremely faint emission from the region around the sun, called the corona.
Online Resources http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/ http://star.mpae.gwdg.de/ Instrument Logistics Instrument Start Date: 1995-12-02 Instrument Owner: Naval Research Lab Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research |
