EST Solar Contest - the Sun at a Glance
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EST Solar Contest - The Sun at a glance Suggested topics Participants should prepare an infographic about any aspect of solar research, solar observations, the European Solar Telescope, or Sun- Earth relations. The topic is free. However, we have compiled an extensive list of possible subjects as examples of the wide variety of themes that can be worked out by the participants. ● ● The Sun as a star ● Magnetic fields ● Magnetic flux ● Physical properties ● Zeeman effect ● Chemical composition ● Hanle effect ● Luminosity ● Magnetic reconnection ● Rotation ● Evershed flow ● Nuclear reactions ● Temperature structure ● Heliosphere Sun structure ● Life cycle ● The future of the Sun ● Overview ● Nucleus ● Radiative zone The Sun as a physics ● Convective zone laboratory ● Tacholine ● Atmosphere ● Gravity ● Nuclear reactions ● Energy transport Solar atmosphere ● Convection ● Radiation ● Overview ● Conduction ● Photosphere ● Electromagnetic radiation ● Chromosphere ● Solar spectrum ● Transition Region ● Black body emission ● Corona ● Spectral lines ● Solar wind ● Polarisation ● Atmospheric heating EUROPEAN SOLAR TELESCOPE COMMUNICATION OFFICE Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain +34 958 230 672, [email protected] Solar magnetic fields ● Flash spectrum ● Active regions ● Magnetic flux tubes The eruptive Sun ● Magnetic network ● Coronal mass ejections ● Internetwork magnetic ● Ellerman bombs fields ● Filament eruptions ● Local dynamo ● Flares ● Magnetic flux emergence ● Microflares ● Nanoflares ● UV bursts Solar features ● White light flares ● Coronal loops ● Coronal rain ● Faculae Solar cycle ● Fibrils ● Overview ● Filaments ● Active regions ● Granulation ● Activity belt ● Helmet streamers ● Wolf number ● Intergranular lanes ● Hale’s polarity law ● Magnetic bright points ● Butterfly diagram ● Magnetic network ● Maunder minimum ● Polar regions ● Origin - Solar dynamo ● Pores ● Prominences ● Quiet Sun Space weather ● Quiet Sun internetwork ● Solar tornados ● Flares ● Spicules ● Coronal mass ejections ● Sunspots ● Solar wind ● Sunspot light bridges ● Geomagnetic storms ● Sunspot penumbra ● Auroras ● Sunspot umbra ● Effects on Earth ● Umbral dots ● Umbral flashes ● X-Ray polar jets Sun-Earth relations ● Sun as an energy source ● The solar constant Solar eclipses ● Milankovic cycles ● Total eclipse ● Habitability zone ● Saros cycle ● Photosynthesis EUROPEAN SOLAR TELESCOPE COMMUNICATION OFFICE Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain +34 958 230 672, [email protected] ● ● Solar observatories ● SUNRISE ● Coimbra Observatory ● Hinode ● Debrecen Observatory ● Solar Dynamics ● Greenwich Observatory Observatory ● Kanzelhöhe Observatory ● Parker Solar Probe ● Kodaikanal Observatory ● Lomnicky Stit Observatory Telescope systems ● Meudon Observatory ● Types of solar telescopes ● Osservatorio Astronomico ● Optical system di Catania ● Primary mirror ● Ossservatorio ● Secondary mirror Astronomico di Roma ● Heat rejecter ● Pic du Midi Observatory ● Optical transfer system ● Roque de los Muchachos ● Building Observatory ● Dome ● Teide Observatory ● Coelostat European Solar Telescope Solar instruments ● Overview ● CCD camera ● Scientific objectives ● sCMOS camera ● New technologies ● Interference filter ● Instrument suite ● Spectrograph ● Site selection ● Polarimeter ● Consortium ● Fabry-Pérot interferometer ● Lyot filter Solar telescopes ● Coronograph ● Dutch Open Telescope ● GREGOR ● Einsteinturm Solar observations ● Swedish Solar Telescope ● Getting rid of heat ● THÉMIS ● Seeing ● Vacuum Tower Telescope ● Minimising seeing ● Adaptive optics ● Spectroscopy Space missions ● Spectropolarimetry ● Solar Orbiter ● Magnetogram ● SOHO ● Dopplergram EUROPEAN SOLAR TELESCOPE COMMUNICATION OFFICE Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain +34 958 230 672, [email protected] ● Common chromospheric ● Jules Janssen lines ● Lorenzo Respighi ● Common photospheric ● Nicolaus Copernicus lines ● Pietro Tacchini ● Halpha line ● Richard Carrington ● Ca II H line ● Rudolf Wolf ● Helioseismology Famous Solar Physicists Solar history ● Angelo Secchi ● Ancient observatories ● Annie Maunder ● First solar photograph ● Bernard Lyot ● First solar film ● Cecilia Payne ● First observation of a CME ● Christoph Scheiner ● First observation of a flare ● Edward Maunder ● Galileo Galilei ● George Ellery Hale Societal aspects ● Gustav Spörer ● Heinrich Schwabe ● The Sun in ancient ● Isaac Newton cultures ● Johannes Fabricius ● Solar temples ● Johannes Kepler ● Mythology ● John Evershed ● Legends ● Joseph Norman Lockyer ● Beliefs ● Joseph von Fraunhofer ● Religion ● Juan Valderrama y Aguilar ● Artistic representations ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● EUROPEAN SOLAR TELESCOPE COMMUNICATION OFFICE Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain +34 958 230 672, [email protected] .