{"id":780976,"date":"2024-04-17T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=780976"},"modified":"2024-04-17T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:51:56","slug":"the-solar-eclipse-like-weve-never-seen-it-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=780976","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Eclipse Like We’ve Never Seen it Before"},"content":{"rendered":"


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You had to be in the right part of North America to get a great view of the recent solar eclipse. But a particular telescope may have had the most unique view of all. Even though that telescope is in Hawaii and only experienced a partial eclipse, its images are interesting. <\/p>\n

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You had to be in the right part of North America to get a great view of the recent eclipse. Image Credit: DKIST\/NSO\/NSF\/AURA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is at the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii. With its four-meter mirror, it\u2019s the largest solar telescope in the world. It observes in visible to near-infrared light, and its sole target is the Sun. It can see features on the Sun\u2019s surface as small as 20 km (12 miles.) It began science operations in February 2022, and its primary objective is to study the Sun\u2019s magnetic fields. <\/p>\n

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This is a collage of solar images captured by the Inouye Solar Telescope. Images include sunspots and quiet regions of the Sun, known as convection cells. (Credit: NSF\/AURA\/NSO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though seeing conditions weren\u2019t perfect during the eclipse and the eclipse was only partial when viewed from Hawaii, the telescope still gathered enough data to create a movie of the Moon passing in front of the Sun. The bumps on the Moon\u2019s dark edge are lunar mountains. <\/p>\n