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- LASCO
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- INSTRUMENT
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- The LASCO instrument is a set of three coronagraphs that image the solar corona from 1.1 to 32 solar radii. C1
- coronagraphs cover the distance from 1.1 to 3.2 solar radii, C2 from 1.5 to 6.0 and C3 from 3.7 to 32 solar radii.
- So totally LASCO instrument covers a range of 1.1 to 32 solar radii without gaps.
- High definition CCD cameras in each telescope provide detailed images with exceptional dynamic range, while large
- digital memories and a high-speed microprocessor support extensive on-board image processing and image data
- compression by large factors, that will allow transmission of up to 10 full coronal images per hour.
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- An important feature of the LASCO design is that it will routinely obtain the required synoptic observations
- simultaneously in the inner (C1), middle (C2), and outer (C3) parts of the field. Consequently, it will be able to trace
- both the origin and outward extension of coronal structures, and to monitor their temporal evolution.
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