Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer at Imperial College

Welcome to the Imperial College web pages concerned with our involvement in the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
Example of CDS images

Example: CDS image of a developing active region, in Mg IX 368Å and Mg X 625Å, on 22nd March 1996. Further examples are available at the CDS image gallery.These images are non-citable and for illustrative purposes only.

Introduction to SOHO and CDS
A description of the CDS instrument and the SOHO spacecraft. Further information can be obtained from the SOHO homepage.

Coronal hole observations using CDS
Three observing sequences have been designed for the CDS instrument to study the structure and evolution of coronal holes and their boundaries.

SOHO synoptic data
A database of solar synoptic images and data from SOHO are available from the SOHO home page, via this page.

Contacts
Contact information of those involved in CDS at Imperial College.

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Last updated 11th September 1996 by J. E. Insley

email: j.insley@ic.ac.uk