by DavidLeodis » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:18 pm
The image used for the APOD and an accompanying caption in the SOHO website are brought up when clicking on the "above image" and "this dramatic image" links in the APOD explanation. The caption is however very confusing, unless I'm missing something! Does anybody know the correct date when the image was taken. The caption currently reads:-
Blasting CME -- This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) shooting billi Joseph B. Gurman Normal Joseph B. Gurman 2 2003-01-03T14:46:00Z 2003-01-03T14:46:00Z 1 NASA GSGC 1 1 9.2511 800x600 0 0 CME blast -- This dramatic coronal mass ejection was captured 7 August 2002 as it blasted billions of tons of particles millions of miles per hour out into space. The image was taken by the LASCO C2 instrument, which blocks out the Sun with an occulting disk so that we can see the fine details of the faint corona. An EIT 284Å image of the Sun itself, taken at about the same time, was enlarged and superimposed on the occulting disk.
I assume that information from at least two SOHO sources has got mixed up when producing the caption!
The image used for the APOD and an accompanying caption in the SOHO website are brought up when clicking on the "above image" and "this dramatic image" links in the APOD explanation. The caption is however very confusing, unless I'm missing something! Does anybody know the correct date when the image was taken. The caption currently reads:-
Blasting CME -- This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) shooting billi Joseph B. Gurman Normal Joseph B. Gurman 2 2003-01-03T14:46:00Z 2003-01-03T14:46:00Z 1 NASA GSGC 1 1 9.2511 800x600 0 0 CME blast -- This dramatic coronal mass ejection was captured 7 August 2002 as it blasted billions of tons of particles millions of miles per hour out into space. The image was taken by the LASCO C2 instrument, which blocks out the Sun with an occulting disk so that we can see the fine details of the faint corona. An EIT 284Å image of the Sun itself, taken at about the same time, was enlarged and superimposed on the occulting disk.
I assume that information from at least two SOHO sources has got mixed up when producing the caption! :)