White Light Corona
(700-950 nm)
Hydrogen Alpha Disk
(656.3 nm)
Helium I Line
(1083 nm)
Calcium II K Line
(393 nm)

CURRENT IMAGES OF THE SUN

The images above represent data from the instruments at the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory.

HAO News

Sunspots don't tell the whole story: A team of HAO scientists
(Sarah Gibson, Giuliana de Toma, Barbara Emery) > more...

Sunspots Revealed by Supercomputers: See NSF 2009 Newletter and the new UCAR Magazine.

SUNRISE launches on its first attempt: Greg Card, an instrument engineer with NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory, was part of the international solar observing project Sunrise.

Short Takes (Monthly Staff Notes): See "Alfvén waves observed" and "WACCM reaches higher."

Sun & Space Weather: NCAR highlighted topics...

Staff Research Highlights

Modeling the Dynamic Eruption of Coronal Streamers.
Michiel Cottaar and Yuhong Fan (HAO) have examined the stability and dynamic evolution of a coronal helmet streamer containing an underlying twisted flux rope by performing global 2-D axisymmetric MHD simulations. > more...

HAO Events

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TREND 2010,
June 15-18, 2010
UCAR's Center Green 1 Facility,
Boulder, Colorado


WHI Second Workshop,
November 10-13, 2009
UCAR's Center Green 1 Facility, Boulder, Colorado