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Extreme Ultraviolet Solar Images Televised In-Flight with a Rocket-Borne SEC Vidicon System

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Abstract

A TV image of the entire sun while an importance 2N solar flare was in progress was recorded in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation band 171–630 Å and transmitted to ground from an Aerobee-150 rocket on 4 November 1969 using S-band telemetry. The camera tube was a Westinghouse Electric Corporation SEC vidicon, with its fiber optic faceplate coated with an XUV to visible conversion layer of p-quaterphenyl. The XUV passband was produced by three 1000-Å thick aluminum filters in series together with the platinized reflecting surface of the off-axis paraboloid that imaged the sun. A number of images were recorded with integration times between 130 sec and 2 sec. Reconstruction of pictures was enhanced by combining several to reduce the noise.

© 1972 Optical Society of America

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