
LASCO HANDBOOK FOR SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATORS
Version 1.0
November 1994
The LASCO Consortium:
- NRL
- E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, DC 20375-5352, USA
- MPAe
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie, 37189 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
- LAS
- Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, 13376 Marseille, France
- DSR
- Space Research Group, School of Physics and Space Research,
University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Table of Contents
Chapter 0. Introduction
Chapter 1. The LASCO Consortium for a Coronagraph onthe
SOHO Mission
Chapter 2. Scientific Objectives of LASCO
Chapter 3. Outline of the LASCO Instrument
Chapter 4. C1 Telescope
Chapter 5. C2 Telescope
Chapter 6. C3 Telescope
Chapter 7. Mechanical Design
Chapter 8. The CCD Cameras
Chapter 9. Electronics
Chapter 10. Onboard Software: Image
Compression
Chapter 11. Onboard Software: LASCO
ObservingSequences
Chapter 12. Data Reduction and Distribution
Chapter 13. LASCO Data Access and
PublicationPolicies
Chapter 14. Sources for Further Information