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Meet our new director, Holly Gilbert!
🎊 We are thrilled that Holly Gilbert will be the next director of our High Altitude Observatory. Welcome Holly! 🎉
news.ucar.edu/132747/holly-g…
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When will it be flare time on the Sun? “By devising a new, regular 'sun clock', researchers have found that the switch on and off of periods of high solar activity is quite sharp, and are able to determine the switch on/off times.” eurekalert.org/pub_releases/…
HAO scientist Scott McIntosh (@swmcintosh ) contributed to this new way of looking at solar cycle timing.
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HAO's K-Cor coronagraph instrument at Mauna Loa Solar Observatory captured a rare close approach of Venus to the Sun as seen from Earth. Venus can be seen as a small black dot above the north pole as it transits the faint solar corona in these images of polarized white light.
HAO scientist @MausumiDikpati presented on how Magnetic Rossby Waves in the Sun's interior shape and drive space weather to our friends at @NWSSWPC . See the recorded presentation here: drive.google.com/file/d/1UjU…
Mauna Loa Solar Observatory observer Allen Stueben along with @whearobotics kids are producing Personal Protective Equipment with 3D printers, while wife Mary makes cloth masks. Great job Stuebens, thanks for helping the community! @somegoodnews www2.hao.ucar.edu/blog/hao-b…
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Hey Northern Colorado: HAO scientists will be in Fort Collins tomorrow (Feb 29) at the Colorado State "Little Shop of Physics." Stop by our table to learn about solar magnetism, space weather, and more! lsop.colostate.edu
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Michael Knölker, engaged as always, questions Oskar von der Lühe (right), at the symposium held in his honor at the NCAR Mesa Laboratory.
Today HAO begins a celebration of the work and achievements of former director and now Senior Scientist Emeritus Michael Knoelker with a symposium "From Solar Physics to Exoplanets" held in his honor.
Info & Agenda: www2.hao.ucar.edu/MK-Symposi…
LIVE webcast: ucar.edu/live
.@NASASun's Parker #SolarProbe recently made its fourth perihelion passage, sampling solar wind closer than ever before along the Sun-Earth line! HAO is working with the community through the WHPI (Whoopie!) initiative to provide daily updated targets whpi.hao.ucar.edu
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The HAO-built Visual Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP) was successfully installed at the @NSF and @NatSolarObs DKIST over the course of five weeks during two visits by HAO scientists. It measures polarized light from the Sun, improving our #2020SolarVision!
The ViSP measures the polarized light from the Sun, which allows scientists to measure the conditions of the solar plasma, including its magnetic field, temperature, and velocity. Polarized light is the key to understanding the physics of the Sun! #2020SolarVision
Congratulations @NSF, @NatSolarObs, on DKIST first light, and also to our HAO scientists and engineers who successfully deployed the ViSP (Visual Spectro-Polarimeter) instrument at the DKIST. Watch for some "first spectra" images soon!
See the Sun like never before! @NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope produces first detailed images of the sun’s surface. bit.ly/2tOX9Db #SolarVision2020
📷: @NatSolarObs/ @AURADC/ NSF
The @NSF DKIST 4-meter solar telescope is operational! Here's the highest resolution image of the Sun, ever. Congratulations to all who have dedicated their work toward this beast of a machine!
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Produced by the @NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope, this is the highest resolution image of the Sun's surface ever taken. #2020SolarVision
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The image shows a pattern of “boiling” gas that covers the entire sun
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For the full image, & description, visit: ow.ly/2aqP50y8fdY
See HAO scientist Paul Bryans interviewed by the Sun Superheroes (sunsuperheroes.weebly.com), young solar enthusiasts working on a research fellowship project at Baden Academy in Western Pennsylvania.
youtube.com/watch?time_conti…
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HAO's Visibile Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP) is now being installed at #DKIST! The optics have been mounted and work is progressing ahead of schedule. www2.hao.ucar.edu/blog/hao-b…
Visiting the heart of US synoptic solar physics. #TheSunMatters @HAOSunEarthLab @NCAR_Science @NSF @NSF_GEO #NSFfunded
Our intrepid team pushing the IR envelope today with colleagues from @CenterForAstro @NCAR_Science @ncareol
@CReppWx @Daniel_R_Marsh when was the last time noctilucent clouds were seen in Colorado? #Eerie #SolarMinimum
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☀️💥 What's more spectacular than a solar flare, more exciting than a CME impacting Earth's magnetosphere, and more jaw-dropping than a solar tsunami?
Our booth at the #SpaceSymposium.
Are we exaggerating? Come by booth 1145 to find out.
#35SS #SpaceWx
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Applications are open for the 2019 Boulder Space Weather Summer School, July 8 to19 at NCAR. The SWSS is a comprehensive
two-week introduction to the science of space weather. Application Deadline: March 1, 2019. www2.hao.ucar.edu/SWSS