2026-05-26 22:11:44
SKYSURF-11 - a New #ZodiacalLight Model Optimized for Optical Wavelengths: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae4512 -> interview with the first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQoe4espVzc
SKYSURF-11 - a New #ZodiacalLight Model Optimized for Optical Wavelengths: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae4512 -> interview with the first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQoe4espVzc
The 2nd contact of the #ArtemisII solar eclipse filmed with an out of focus (!) cellphone: #corona streamers appearing. (During most of the eclipse only the #ZodiacalLight had been visible behind the huge Moon as the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae71c8 - summarized in Japanese in https://www.tcu.ac.jp/en/news/all/20260609-71681/ which auto-machine-translates into English - has explained.)
This slide from the #coronagraphs symposium in Boulder from the talk by Sam van Kooten is quite enlightening: it shows two processing steps of a #PUNCH WFI composite, on the left still dominated by the F corona i.e. #ZodiacalLight i.e. interplanetary dust (just as seen in the Artemis II eclipse images) while on the right the - at such distance from the Sun muuuch fainter - K corona has been brought out which traces the Sun's magnetic field.