Talk:List of solar telescopes

Switzerland
In Switzerland the Locarno one is complemented by one in Arosa, Switzerland. It is administered from the Swiss federal institute of technology and Zurich university. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1968SoPh....5..423W. I'll let someone else figure out if that's important enough a detail. Dlamblin (talk) 21:21, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

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List of space telescopes
The following is a list of Sun-observing space telescopes that was previously a part of Solar flare. It should be converted to table format before adding to the main article.
 * Yohkoh – The Yohkoh (originally Solar A) spacecraft observed the Sun with a variety of instruments from its launch in 1991 until its failure in 2001. The observations spanned a period from one solar maximum to the next. Two instruments of particular use for flare observations were the Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT), a glancing incidence low energy X-ray telescope for photon energies of order 1 keV, and the Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT), a collimation counting instrument which produced images in higher energy X-rays (15–92 keV) by image synthesis.
 * WIND – The Wind spacecraft is devoted to the study of the interplanetary medium. Since the Solar Wind is its main driver, solar flares effects can be traced with the instruments aboard Wind. Some of the WIND experiments are: a very low frequency spectrometer, (WAVES), particles detectors (EPACT, SWE) and a magnetometer (MFI).
 * GOES – The GOES spacecraft are satellites in geostationary orbits around the Earth that have measured the soft X-ray flux from the Sun since the mid-1970s, following the use of similar instruments on the Solrad satellites. GOES X-ray observations are commonly used to classify flares, with A, B, C, M, and X representing different powers of ten – an X-class flare has a peak 1–8 Å flux above 0.0001 W/m2.
 * RHESSI – The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectral Imager was designed to image solar flares in energetic photons from soft X rays (ca. 3 keV) to gamma rays (up to ca. 20 MeV) and to provide high resolution spectroscopy up to gamma-ray energies of ca. 20 MeV. Furthermore, it had the capability to perform spatially resolved spectroscopy with high spectral resolution. It was decommissioned in August 2018, after more than 16 years of operation.
 * SOHO – The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is collaboration between the ESA and NASA which has been in continuous operation since December 1995. It carries 12 different instruments, among them the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT), the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) and the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI). SOHO is in a halo orbit around the earth-sun L1 point.
 * TRACE – The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer is a NASA Small Explorer program (SMEX) to image the solar corona and transition region at high angular and temporal resolution. It has passband filters at 173 Å, 195 Å, 284 Å, 1600 Å with a spatial resolution of 0.5 arc sec, the best at these wavelengths.
 * SDO – The Solar Dynamics Observatory is a NASA project composed of 3 different instruments: the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE)., it had been planned to operate for many years after it is launched into a geosynchronous earth orbit.
 * Hinode –The Hinode spacecraft, originally called Solar B, was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in September 2006 to observe solar flares in more precise detail. Its instrumentation, supplied by an international collaboration including Norway, the U.K., the U.S., and Africa focuses on the powerful magnetic fields thought to be the source of solar flares. Such studies should shed light on the causes of this activity, possibly helping to forecast future flares and thus minimize their dangerous effects on satellites and astronauts.
 * ACE – The Advanced Composition Explorer was launched in 1997 into a halo orbit around the Earth–Sun L1 point. It carries spectrometers, magnetometers and charged particle detectors to analyze the solar wind. The Real Time Solar Wind (RTSW) beacon is continually monitored by a network of NOAA-sponsored ground stations to provide early warning of earth-bound CMEs.
 * MAVEN – The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on November 18, 2013, is the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The goal of MAVEN is to determine the role that loss of atmospheric gas to space played in changing the Martian climate through time. The Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) monitor on MAVEN is part of the Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) instrument and measures solar EUV input and variability, and wave heating of the Martian upper atmosphere.
 * STEREO – The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory is a solar observation mission consisting of two nearly identical spacecraft that were launched in 2006. Contact with STEREO-B was lost in 2014, but STEREO-A is still operational. Each spacecraft carries several instruments, including cameras, particle detectors and a radio burst tracker.

CoronalMassAffection (talk) 03:39, 23 December 2021 (UTC)


 * With the exception of MAVEN, these are all listed at List of heliophysics missions. Perhaps instead of repeating that here, we could just move the link from the "See also" section to a more prominent location. --Lasunncty (talk) 09:20, 24 December 2021 (UTC)