#ASPIICS

Thee panel plot, showing solar eclipse images from the Proba-3 ASPIICS instrument at various stages of processing. They all use a blue-green-yellow color scale. The fist panel shows the blocked out sun as a yellow ring with fine wispy structures pointing away from it (the corona/solar wind). There are a lot of thin vertical lines from uncorrected bias. The central panel shows the same image, but those lines are all gone, improving the contrast of the real details significantly. The right panel shows just the lines that were corrected out with minimal features from the sun's corona being picked up.

It's day 12 or so of programming a filter to reduce the banding noise in the Proba-3 #ASPIICS images.

The ASPIICS images are amazing, but plagued by a lot of uncorrected bias and FPN noise. Designing the algorithm to be robust against picking up coronal features was a challenge. #heliophysics

Disque noir entouré d'une couronne solaire verdâtre

Soleil jaune entouré d'un disque verdâtre de couronne solaire entouré d'un disque rougeâtre plus grand de couronne solaire

🛰️🤩🎂 Le duo de satellites de #Proba-3, faiseur d’#éclipses solaires, vient de fêter son 1er anniversaire dans l’espace ! La multitude d’images déjà fournies par #ASPIICS à son bord est un bonheur pour l’Observatoire royal de Belgique, son investigateur principal. www.astro.oma.be/fr/...

Black disk surrounded by a greenish solar corona

Yellow Sun surrounded by a greenish disk of solar corona surrounded by a bigger reddish disk of solar corona

🛰️🤩🎂 The #Proba-3 satellite duo, creators of #solareclipses, have just celebrated their first anniversary in space! The multitude of images already provided by #ASPIICS on board is a source of great joy for the Royal Observatory of Belgium, its principal investigator. www.astro.oma.be/en/...

Image du Soleil au milieu d'un disque noir. Les rayons du soleil sortent du disque noir.

#ASPIICS, géré par l'@orb-ksb.bsky.social prendra des clichés de la couronne solaire et nous donnera un nouvel éclairage sur cette partie peu connue du Soleil.
🤩Nous avons hâte d'y assister !
📺Suivez le lancement (à partir du 4 décembre à 11 h): www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Beeld van de zon in het midden van een zwarte schijf. Zonnestralen gaan uit de zwarte schijf.

#ASPIICS, beheerd door de @orb-ksb.bsky.social, zal de zonnecorona in beeld brengen en nieuwe inzichten geven in dit niet erg bekende deel van de zon.
🤩We kijken er al naar uit!
📺Volg de lancering (vanaf 4 dec om 11u): www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Image of the Sun in the middle of a black disk. Sun rays are going out of the black disk.

#ASPIICS, managed by the @orb-ksb.bsky.social, will image the solar corona and give new insights to this not very well-known part of the Sun.
🤩We are looking forward to watching it!
📺Follow the launch (starting Dec 4 at 11:00): www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...