Beautiful images for National Geographic

These images are made available for National Geographic Magazine to choose from. They are not free for publication. Please contact Göran Scharmer or Mats Löfdahl.

The images are ordered approximately for age, not for quality.

Credits

All images were observed with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST). The SST is operated on the island of La Palma by the Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Please credit the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as well as the observers for the individual images (info appears next to each image below). Here is the name of the academy in a couple of languages: Swedish: Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. German: Die Königlich Schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften. French: L'Académie Royale des Sciences de Suède. Spanish: Real Academia de Ciencias de Suecia.

Institutes:
ISP = Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
Oslo = Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics of Oslo University, Norway
LMSAL = Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, USA

Note:
θ=heliocentric viewing angle, μ=cos(θ)

Magnetograms

Colorful magnetograms

H-alpha and continuum at 436.4 nm

Observations: Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Image processing: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Wavelength: 436.4 nm (Continuum)
Target:
Date: 22Aug2003

Observations: Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Image processing: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Wavelength: 656.3 nm (H-alpha)
Target:
Date: 22Aug2003

H-alpha and continuum at 436.4 nm

Observations: Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Image processing: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Wavelength: 436.4 nm (Continuum)
Target:
Date: 22Aug2003

Observations: Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Image processing: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Wavelength: 656.3 nm (H-alpha)
Target:
Date: 22Aug2003

Sun spot group near solar center

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 436.4 nm (Continuum)
Target: AR 431
Date: 14Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target: AR 431
Date: 14Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 396.5 nm (Ca II H)
Target: AR 431
Date: 14Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target: AR 431
Date: 14Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: Magnetogram at 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target: AR 431
Date: 14Aug2003
Note: Other colors

Irregular spot

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 436.4 nm (Continuum)
Target: AR 424
Date: 08Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target: AR 424
Date: 08Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 396.5 nm (Ca II H)
Target: AR 424 at θ=20
Date: 08Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target: AR 424
Date: 08Aug2003

Small regular spot

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 436.4 nm (Continuum)
Target: AR 425 at θ=40.5°, μ=0.76
Date: 04Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target: AR 425 at θ=40.5°, μ=0.76
Date: 04Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 396.5 nm (Ca II H)
Target: AR 425 at θ=40.5°, μ=0.76
Date: 04Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: Magnetogram at 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target: AR 425 at θ=40.5°, μ=0.76
Date: 04Aug2003
Note: Other color magnetograms

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 436.4 nm (Continuum)
Target: AR 425 at θ=20°, μ=0.94
Date: 08Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target: AR 425 at θ=20°, μ=0.94
Date: 08Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 396.5 nm (Ca II H)
Target: AR 425 at θ=20°, μ=0.94
Date: 08Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: Magnetogram at 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target: AR 425 at θ=20°, μ=0.94
Date: 08Aug2003
Note: Other color magnetograms

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 436.4 nm (Continuum)
Target: AR 425 at θ=36°, μ=0.81
Date: 09Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target: AR 425 at θ=36°, μ=0.81
Date: 09Aug2003

Observations: Göran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 396.5 nm (Ca II H)
Target: AR 425 at θ=36°, μ=0.81
Date: 09Aug2003

Observations: , ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: Magnetogram at 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target:
Date:
Note: Other color magnetograms

Observations: , ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: Dopplergram at 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target:
Date:
Note: Color magnetograms

Large regular spot

Observations: Dan Kiselman, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target: AR 397
Date: 03Jul2003

Observations: Dan Kiselman, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target: AR 397
Date: 03Jul2003

Observations: Dan Kiselman, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: Magnetogram at 630.2 nm (Fe I)
Target: AR 397
Date: 03Jul2003
Note: Other colors

Active regions with sunspots and faculae near solar limb

Observations: Göran Scharmer, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 487.7 nm (Continuum)
Target:
Date: 24Jul2002

Observations: Dan Kiselman, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target:
Date: 29Jun2003

Active region with faculae, different wavelengths, co-aligned

Observations: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Image processing: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target: Stonyhurst S15 W50, θ=51°, μ=0.6
Date: 16Jun2003

Observations: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Image processing: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Wavelength: 656.3 - 0.070 nm (H-alpha)
Target: Stonyhurst S15 W50, θ=51°, μ=0.6
Date: 16Jun2003

Observations: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Image processing: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Wavelength: 656.3 - 0.035 nm (H-alpha)
Target: Stonyhurst S15 W50, θ=51°, μ=0.6
Date: 16Jun2003

Observations: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Image processing: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Wavelength: 656.3 + 0.035 nm (H-alpha)
Target: Stonyhurst S15 W50, θ=51°, μ=0.6
Date: 16Jun2003

Observations: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Image processing: Bart De Pontieu, LMSAL
Wavelength: 656.3 + 0.070 nm (H-alpha)
Target: Stonyhurst S15 W50, θ=51°, μ=0.6
Date: 16Jun2003

Network in G-band 430.5 nm

Observations: Mats Carlsson, Viggo Hansteen, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Astrid Fossum, Elin Marthinussen, Oslo
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target:
Date: 25May2003

Observations: Mats Carlsson, Viggo Hansteen, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Astrid Fossum, Elin Marthinussen, Oslo
Image processing: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Oslo
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target:
Date: 25May2003

Irregular sunspot with light bridges

Observations: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 430.5 nm (G-band)
Target: AR 349
Date: 02May2003

Sunspot with lightbridge in TiO 707.5 nm

Observations: Thomas Berger, LMSAL
Image processing: Mats Löfdahl, ISP
Wavelength: 705.7 nm (TiO)
Target: AR 132
Date: 25Sep2002

Time-stamp: <2003-10-31 11:45:32 mats>