VSO

Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO). A search engine for Solar Physics Data.

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High winds on the Front Range prompted a precautionary power shutdown. NSO is on backup generators; NSO data sources and VSO should stay up, but intermittent outages are possible. If you can’t reach us, that’s why.

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VSO is happy to report that we have reestablished access to OMP/CLIMSO data via their new TAP AP.

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VSO is happy to report that we have reestablished access to OMP/CLIMSO data via their new TAP AP.

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When Solar Orbiter is at its closest approach to the Sun, at the minimum perihelion of 0.28 AU (i.e., astronomical unit), the annular zone is within 1.7 and 3.1 R☉ (solar radii) from disk center.
In addition, updates to EUI, SPICE and SoloHI data have been made.

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VSO has added data from the Metis instrument to the Solar Orbiter Data Provider. Metis is the coronagraph of the scientific payload of Solar Orbiter. The main Metis objective is the investigation of the global corona in polarized visible light and in ultraviolet light.

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By simulating a solar eclipse, Metis observes the faint coronal light, at least one millionth dimmer than the disk light, in an annular zone 1.6°–2.9° wide, around the disk center.

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PSP/WISPR data for Encounters 20 & 21 are now in the VSO

Encounter 20: June 25 – July 5, 2024
Encounter 21: Sept 25 – Oct 5, 2024

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VSO is at AGU. Come find out about VSO 2.0. Posters 2172 and 2173.

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Flooding has taken the servers at the JSOC offline. Newer SDO etc., data should still be available via the VSO.

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The WISPR data for Encounters 18 & 19 are now available via the VSO. A total of 53,766 files have been added!

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Patching is occurring now at SDAC which will affect VSO services. Should be finished by 2pm EDT.

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There was a power outage at NSO this afternoon which took down some of the VSO equipment. Although back up now, there may be some residual issues with the VSO@NSO and NSO Dataproviders such as NISP.

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Network issues at CU Boulder will likely affect access to VSO at NSO and the datasets NSO serves. (2024/06/28)

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The SDAC will be patching servers sdo6, sdo7 (production) and sdo8 tomorrow, May 16th at 2 pm eastern time. VSO services will be unavailable at SDAC for approximately 1 hour.

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The SDAC plans to patch various servers, including the SDO production server on Thursday April 18th at 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern time. This will require rebooting servers and an outage of 30 mins - 1 hour. During this time VSO services at the SDAC will be unavailable.

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VSO has added the latest SPICE data, up to 1/31/24. A total of 89,777 files have been added to the VSO DB.

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The WISPR Encounter 17 data is now available in the VSO. This includes the new V2 files for the new stray light model results for the outer detector for Orbits 10-15 for dates 11/11/21 to 3/24/23.

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NSO is currently on generator power after precautionary power cuts due to high winds. All systems are currently available.

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SDAC will be down from 11am-12pm Eastern tomorrow, Jan 10 for server maintenance. This will affect all data providers hosted by SDAC.