YEARS 2008 TO SEPTEMBER 2011: GALACTIC PLANE & SUN ON SOLAR MASS EJECTION IMAGER (SMEI)

SMEI Camera Geometry: The Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) consists of three cameras, each with a field of view of roughly 60 degrees, that are oriented on the Coriolis spacecraft in such a way that, together, they image a strip of sky that is roughly 180 degrees wide. As the spacecraft moves through its Sun-synchronous polar orbit, the SMEI cameras sweep out nearly the entire sky in a pushbroom fashion. Due to the geometry of the orbit and the need to keep direct sunlight out of the SMEI cameras, there is an exclusion zone with a diameter of roughly 20 degrees in the sunward direction. (There is also a smaller exclusion zone in the anti-sunward direction.)

Since (nearly) the entire sky visible from the Earth is imaged every orbit (101 minutes), these images can be combined into a single "fisheye" image of the sky. This is accomplished using the Hammer-Aitoff projection. This is an equal-area map projection that displays the celestial sphere on an ellipse. For SMEI, the Hammer-Aitoff images are centered on the Sun and the point in the anti-sunward direction (from the perspective of the Earth) is mapped to the outer ellipse. This way, disturbances from the Sun will appear to originate at the center of the image and propagate outward as they travel to 1 A.U. and beyond. - Original reference: http://smei.nso.edu/image_info.html

Data Credits to: http://smei.nso.edu

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[adirunning]

This is incredible. Great video!

.. So,.. Did anyone notice any changes in our solar system or sun itself, since 2008, what could be seen on the video?

[solarcradle]

@adirunning If interested, have a look at 2003-2005 and you will notice that there is a big difference prior to years included in this video. :) ww.youtube.com/watch?v=xuoTpZt­tB7Y Thanks for stopping by.

[LadyStonecut]

Amazing!

[docatomics]

...ahwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww­wwOWWWWWWWWWWW !

~it is very strange in here

=worlds and raw material everywhere; come let us trek outwards spread all kinds life among our stars; as if we knew enough to run our own noises; but such is necessity of learning; least we all go extinct without making payment to our kinds collective life debt owed to the universe

+p.s. needs background music (available in your video editor); I always hear didgeridoo when contemplating universe acoustics satelliteless