The Quiet Sun
Description
The bottom panel is an image of the quiet chromosphere of the Sun taken with the Yohkoh soft x-ray telescope. The concentric circles superimposed on the image indicate the location and field of view of two VLA images made on September 23, 1992. The upper left panel shows the VLA image made at a wavelength of 1.3 cm (inner circle), and the upper right panel is a 2 cm VLA image (outer circle).
Creator
Legacy Astronomical Images
Rights
NRAO/AUI/NSF does not hold full copyright for this image. Contact the archivist for details.
Type
Legacy Astronomical Image
Object Name
Sun
Investigators
T. S. Bastian, G. A. Dulk, Y. Leblanc
Telescope
Very Large Array (VLA)
Yohkoh
Observation Date
1992-09-23
Type of Observation
continuum
Center of Image
RA 25:0:0.000, Dec: 0:0:0.000 (J2000)
Field of View
0.550000 x 0.550000 degrees
Link to journal article
Notes
Contact the archivist for a high resolution tif of this image.
Series
Solar System Series
Unit
Sun Unit
Citation
Legacy Astronomical Images, “The Quiet Sun,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed August 17, 2024, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/33616.