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The Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) is a distributed access system for solar physics relevant scientific data. [1] VSO allows users to query a distributed database to find solar images, spectra, and other data collected by observatories in space and around the globe, given particular query parameters such as date/time and particular image characteristics such as wavelength, spatial resolution ...
The Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) is a worldwide network of six identical telescopes, designed to have 24/7 observations of the Sun. [1] The network serves multiple purposes, including the provision of operation data for use in space weather prediction, [2] and the study of solar internal structure and dynamics using helioseismology.
Solar observation is the scientific endeavor of studying the Sun and its behavior and relation to the Earth and the remainder of the Solar System. Deliberate solar observation began thousands of years ago. That initial era of direct observation gave way to telescopes in the 1600s followed by satellites in the twentieth century.
Corresponding to the optical images of solar regions are the digital "brightness-area" data. These data are often plotted as brightness-area histograms for a particular time or, in a 3-3-dimensional display, showing a time sequence of changing intensity of optical emissions from areas of solar active regions.
The Space Weather Prediction Center is one of the nine National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and provides real-time monitoring and forecasting of solar and geophysical events, conducts research in solar-terrestrial physics (i.e. heliophysics), and develops techniques for forecasting solar and geophysical disturbances.
San Vito Solar Observatory, San Vito dei Normanni, Italy; The RSTN is complemented in its real-time capability by a radio telescope operated from 25 MHz (the ionospheric cutoff) to 1,800 MHz by the Ionospheric Prediction Service at the Paul Wild Observatory in Culgoora, New South Wales, Australia.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus Defence and Space) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on 2 December 1995, to study the Sun.
The WRO's Real-time Interactive Solar Observatory (RISO) allows teachers across the world to log into the observatory's website and use the WRO's solar telescope video/images as a teaching tool in their classroom. A similar program called Real-time Interactive Observatory (RIO) offers the same opportunity but for night-time observations.