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Monday, October 31, 2016

Lunar Transit of October 30, 2016

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Looks like the Moon moved across the Sun again yesterday. Not a double eclipse, but a nice example of how the Moon's orbit brings it i...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

The Next Two Weeks in SDO History

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Today starting at 1700 UTC (1:00 pm ET) SDO will perform the EVE Cruciform calibration maneuver. Next week, on October 26, 2016, SDO will ...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

A Beautiful Joint Solar Eclipse!

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Today's Joint Solar Eclipse looked beautiful from SDO. Here's a short movie in AIA 193 to show you what it looked like. It starts ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Momentum Management Maneuver #27 Today, Joint Solar Eclipse Tomorrow

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Today at 1857 UTC (2:57 p.m. ET) SDO will do MM #27. Science mode will stop at 1847 UTC and resume at 1917 UTC (3:17 p.m. ET). Science data ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Station Keeping Maneuver Today and the Next Lunar Transit

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Today from 2240-2305 UTC (6:40-7:05 p.m. ET) SDO will execute a station-keeping maneuver that keeps us within our assigned longitude box. Th...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

You Never Miss Them 'TIl They're Gone!

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I had forgotten how nice it was to see the Sun each morning in all of the different ways SDO provides. It took longer then we expected, b...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Lunar Transit this Morning

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SDO had a lunar transit this morning from 1113-1207 UTC (7:13-8:08 a.m. ET). The spacecraft did not go back into Science mode at the end of ...