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Field Data Archive

Infrared_Corona: Infrared Solar Corona

Summary

The project is an effort from an aircraft platform at the toal solar eclipse of 18 February 1998 with the following objectives: 1) To survey the intermediate infrared spectral region for coronal emission lines, toward the goal of adding diagnostic capability in coronal studies; 2) to carry out photometric measurements of the IR coronal radiance, so as to specify the relative roles of thermal emission and scattering from the F-coronal dust; 3) to measure the spectral shift of Fraunhofer lines in the coronal signal in order to determine the motion of interplanetary dust near the sun and to understand previously reported variations from Keplerian orbital mootion; and 4) to sudy the HE I 1083 nm radiation observed at the 1994 eclipse inthe outer coronal by means of line profile measurements. This project was headed by Robert MacQueen to study the Infrared Solar Corona from Panama City, Panama.

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Temporal coverage

Begin Date 1998-01-05 00:00:00
End Date 1998-03-10 23:59:59

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 8.97232, Minimum (South) Latitude: 2.1258
Minimum (West) Longitude: -85.04783, Maximum (East) Longitude: -77.77906

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This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.