{"id":218542,"date":"2013-12-10T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"039a98a4e5239c3bca508cc255714396"},"modified":"2013-12-10T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T23:00:00","slug":"multiwavelength-solar-eclipse-activity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218542","title":{"rendered":"Multiwavelength solar eclipse activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/12\/multiwavelength_solar_eclipse_activity\/13446332-6-eng-GB\/Multiwavelength_solar_eclipse_activity_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis animated gallery depicts solar activity during the day of the solar eclipse on 3 November 2013, as it was observed from three separate observing locations and across various different wavelengths.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA total solar eclipse provides ground-based observers with the rare opportunity of seeing the solar corona, but the terrestrial atmosphere blocks a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Observatories in orbit can cover this gap, enabling continuous monitoring of the solar disc in a variety of wavelengths. Extreme-ultraviolet light is covered by the Royal Observatory of Belgium\u2019s SWAP instrument aboard ESA\u2019s Proba-2 minisatellite and the AIA and HMI instruments aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Ground-based images in white light from Cape Lopez at Port Gentil in Gabon show the solar activity of the lower corona during totality, in a composite image captured from the beginning until the end of the eclipse, about three hours in length.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite images in extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths used in this animation were acquired approximately every 30 minutes and span the entire day of 3 November 2013. The solar corona was visible during the 65 seconds of totality in Gabon at 13:50 GMT, while Proba-2\u2019s SWAP captured images of a partial eclipse several times because the satellite is following a Sun-synchronous orbit that is not in perfect alignment with the Sun and Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/12\/multiwavelength_solar_eclipse_activity\/13446332-6-eng-GB\/Multiwavelength_solar_eclipse_activity_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis animated gallery depicts solar activity during the day of the solar eclipse on 3 November 2013, as it was observed from three separate observing locations and across various different wavelengths.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA total solar eclipse provides ground-based observers with the rare opportunity of seeing the solar corona, but the terrestrial atmosphere blocks a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Observatories in orbit can cover this gap, enabling continuous monitoring of the solar disc in a variety of wavelengths. Extreme-ultraviolet light is covered by the Royal Observatory of Belgium\u2019s SWAP instrument aboard ESA\u2019s Proba-2 minisatellite and the AIA and HMI instruments aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Ground-based images in white light from Cape Lopez at Port Gentil in Gabon show the solar activity of the lower corona during totality, in a composite image captured from the beginning until the end of the eclipse, about three hours in length.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite images in extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths used in this animation were acquired approximately every 30 minutes and span the entire day of 3 November 2013. The solar corona was visible during the 65 seconds of totality in Gabon at 13:50 GMT, while Proba-2\u2019s SWAP captured images of a partial eclipse several times because the satellite is following a Sun-synchronous orbit that is not in perfect alignment with the Sun and Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}