Images of AR12849 as seen by XRT during the MaGIXS sounding rocket coordination on July 30th. Click the image for movie or go here for youtube version!
MaGIXS Rocket Coordination
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On July 30th, the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrograph (MaGIXS) sounding rocket experiment succesfully launched from the White Sands Missile Range. The goal of this launch was to observe soft X-rays with a level of detail that had not previously been acheived. While the data collected by MaGIXS still needs to be fully analyzed, the launch and the mission were a resounding success. During the launch, XRT and the rest of hinode coordinated observations of the Sun. The movie shows high-cadence XRT observations taken of Active Region (AR) 12849 during the rocket launch. The data captured are Thin-Be filter images at about a 10 second cadence. These high-cadence images show many small, quick brightenings in the active region. Keywords: AR Tracking Filters: Thin_Be |
(Prepared by Joy Velasquez, Lucas Guliano, and Kathy Reeves)
The XRT instrument team is comprised of SAO, NASA, JAXA, and NAOJ.
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