ISRO mentioned that amongst the notable options revealed are sunspots, plage, and quiet Sun areas, as marked in the Mg II h picture, offering scientists with pioneering insights into the intricate particulars of the Sun’s photosphere and chromosphere.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday introduced that the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) instrument on board the Aditya-L1 spacecraft has efficiently captured the first full-disk images of the Sun.
ISRO in an replace mentioned that SUIT has captured the images in 200-400 nm wavelength vary.
“SUIT captures images of the Sun’s photosphere and chromosphere in this wavelength range using various scientific filters,” ISRO mentioned. On November 20, 2023, the SUIT payload was powered on.
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“Following a successful pre-commissioning phase, the telescope captured its first light science images on December 6, 2023. These unprecedented images, taken using eleven different filters (as shown in Table 1), include the first-ever full-disk representations of the Sun in wavelengths ranging from 200 to 400 nm, excluding Ca II h. The full disk images of the Sun in the Ca II h wavelength have been studied from other observatories,” the house company mentioned.
ISRO mentioned that amongst the notable options revealed are sunspots, plage, and quiet Sun areas, as marked in the Mg II h picture, offering scientists with pioneering insights into the intricate particulars of the Sun’s photosphere and chromosphere.
It added that the SUIT observations will assist scientists research the dynamic coupling of the magnetized photo voltaic ambiance and help them in putting tight constraints on the results of photo voltaic radiation on Earth’s local weather.
Aditya-L1 India’s first house primarily based observatory to check the Sun, was launched on September 2 and is devoted to the complete research of the Sun. It has 7 distinct payloads developed, all developed indigenously. Five by ISRO and two by Indian tutorial institutes in collaboration with ISRO.
The growth of SUIT concerned a collaborative effort beneath the management of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.
This collaboration included ISRO, the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), the Centre for Excellence in Space Science Indian (CESSI) at IISER-Kolkata, the Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bengaluru, the Udaipur Solar Observatory (USO-PRL), and Tezpur University Assam.
