Gallery of Solar Images & Movies

Images of Solar Phenomenon

• Sunspot
• Graph for Sunspot Relative Numbers (20cm Refractor & Sunspot Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• Latitude Distribution of Sunspots (Butterfly Diagram) (20cm Refractor & Sunspot Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• Comparison between a Graph for Sunspot Relative Numbers and Butterfly Diagram (20cm Refractor & Sunspot Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• A Big Sunspot (1989 March 15, 20cm Refractor, Mitaka Campus)
• A Big Sunspot (2014 October 18-28, The Solar Flare Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• Zurich Classification of Sunspots (20cm Refractor, Mitaka Campus)
• Solar Rotation Indicated by Sunspots : 1989, 2011 (20cm Refractor & Sunspot Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• Zeeman Effect Observed on a Sunspot (1974 July 5, Solar Telescope, Okayama Astrophysical Observatory)

• Flare, Prominence
• A Big Hα Two-Ribbon Flare on 1982 September 4 (Mitaka Campus: Hα Flare Patrol Telescope)
• A Large Eruptive Prominence on 1989 January 30 (10cm Coronagraph, Norikura Solar Observatory)
• A Large Eruptive Prominence on 1992 July 31 (10cm Coronagraph, Norikura Solar Observatory)
• A Horseshoe-Shaped Flare on 1995 October 3 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Prominence on 2010 November 6 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Solar Flare on 2011 August 4 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Filament on 2013 September 21-30 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• An M2.4 Class Flare on 2017 July 14 (Full disk) (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• A C1.5 Class Flare on 2018 February 12 (Full disk) (The Solar Flare Telescope)

• Corona
• Corona in Solar Maximum (2000 October 27, 10cm Coronagraph, Norikura Solar Observatory
• Latitude Distribution of Coronal Green-Line Intensity (Butterfly Diagram) (10cm Coronagraph, Norikura Solar Observatory)
• Comet Ikeya-Seki (1965 October 21, 10cm Coronagraph, Norikura Solar Observatory)
• A Composite Image of the Photosphere and the Corona (1997 November 5, 20cm Refractor at the Mitaka Campus and the 10cm Coronagraph of Norikura Solar Observatory)
• Multi-Temperature Structure of the Corona (1998 September 9, 25cm Coronagraph, Norikura Solar Observatory)

• Solar Eclipse
• Flash Spectra Taken at a Total Solar Eclipse (1980 Febrary 16, Malindi, Kenya)
• Total Solar Eclipse (1983 June 11, Java, Indonesia)
• Total Solar Eclipse : 1, 2 (1988 March 18, Ogasawara, Japan)
• Total Solar Eclipse : 1, 2 (1991 July 11, La Paz, Mexico)
• Spectra of the Corona Taken at a Total Solar Eclipse (1994 November 3, Putre, Chile)
• Total Solar Eclipse : 1, 2, 3, 4 (2009 July 22, Iwojima, Japan)
• Annular Solar Eclipse (Japanese site) (2012 May 21, Mitaka, Japan)
• Total Solar Eclipse (2012 November 14, Queensland, Australia)
• Total Solar Eclipse (2016 March 9, Ternate Island, Indonesia)
• Total Solar Eclipse (2019 July 2, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile)
• A View during a Total Solar Eclipse (Shadow Cone) (2019 July 2, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile)
• An All-Sky View of a Total Solar Eclipse (Shadow Cone) (2019 July 2, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile)

• Others
• Solar Spectra : Blue to Green, Green to Red (25cm Coronagraph, Norikura Solar Observatory)
• Active Region NOAA7260 (1992 August 14, The Solar Flare Telescope and the Soft X-ray Telescope aboard Yohkoh)
• A Collection of Global Maps of the Sun (1999 August 11, Mitaka Campus: Hα Flare Patrol Telescope, STEP Full-Disk Magnetograph, 25cm Coronagraph of Norikura Solar Observatory, the Soft X-ray Telescope aboard Yokhoh)
• Venus Transit (in Japanese) (2004 June 8)
• Mercury Transit (in Japanese) (2006 November 9)
• Venus Transit (2012 June 6)

Movies of Solar Phenomenon

• Flare
• A Solar Flare on 2010 November 6 (Mitaka Campus: Hα Fulldisk Telescope)
• An X Class Solar Flare on 2011 February 15 (Mitaka Campus: Hα Fulldisk Telescope)
• A Solar Flare on 2012 October 24 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Continuous Flares on 2013 January 10-13 : GIF, WMV (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• An X Class Solar Flare on 2013 May. 14 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• An X Class Solar Flare on 2013 Nov. 8 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• An X Class Solar Flare on 2014 Feb. 25 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• An X Class Solar Flare on 2014 Apr. 25:movie1, movie2(The Solar Flare Telescope)　
• An M5.6 Class Solar Flare on 2015 Jan. 13 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• An M6.7 Class Solar Flare on 2016 Apr. 18 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• An X8.2 Class Solar Flare on 2017 Sep. 10 (The Solar Flare Telescope & HINODE/XRT)
• An M4.7 Class Flare on 2021 Aug. 28 (Full disk) (The Solar Flare Telescope)

• Filament or Prominence Eruption
• Prominence Eruption on 2011 January 28(Mitaka Campus: Hα Fulldisk Telescope)
• Prominence Eruption on 2012 Mar. 2 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Filament Eruption on 2013 January 31 : GIF, WMV (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Prominence Eruption on 2013 Dec. 21 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Prominence Eruption on 2014 Mar. 16 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Prominence Eruption on 2015 Jan. 16 (Hα center) (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Prominence Eruption on 2015 Jan. 16 (Dopplergram) (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Filament Eruption from the active region NOAA 12339 on 2015 May. 13(The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Prominence Eruption on 2016 Jan. 5(The Solar Flare Telescope)

• Other
• White Lite Fulldisk between 1997 November and 2014 October (Mitaka Campus: Sunspot Telescope, 9.0MB)
• Hα Fulldisk between 2011 July and 2014 October (Mitaka Campus: The Solar Flare Telescope, 8.2MB)
• Continuous Surges on 2011 October 7 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Prominence Activity on 2012 August 7 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Prominence on the Sun's North-East rim on 2015 April 24 (The Solar Flare Telescope)
• Partial Solar Eclipse on 2019 January 6(Mitaka Campus: The Solar Flare Telescope)

Others

• Images
• The International Space Station (ISS) across the Sun (2015 November 3, The Solar Flare Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• Transits of flying objects on the Sun (2011 - 2015, The Solar Flare Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• A plane across the Sun (2013 January 1, The White Light Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• A plane across the Sun (2015 February 28, The Solar Flare Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• A JASDF‘s plane before the Sun (Hα+0.5 Å. 2019 January 13, The Solar Flare Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• A plane before the Sun (Hα+3.5 Å. 2020 September 5, The Solar Flare Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• A plane before the Sun (Hα. 2021 November 20, The Solar Flare Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• A JASDF‘s plane before the Sun [monochrome without caption、coloered without caption] (Hα+0.5 Å. 2022 November 22, The Solar Flare Telescope, Mitaka Campus)
• Four Seasons of the Solar Flare Telescope : Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (Mitaka Campus)
• Parhelion and Halo (Mitaka Campus)

• Movies
• The solar observatory in spring -distant view-
• The solar observatory in spring -close-range view-
• The solar observatory in summer -distant view-
• The solar observatory in summer -close-range view-
• The solar observatory in autumn
• The solar observatory in winter
• Sliding roof for the Solar Flare Telescope in Miataka campus
• At the end of a daily observation (closing telescope's caps for the Solar Flare Telescope)
• Clock drive system of the Carl Zeiss 20 cm refractor in Miataka campus