SOHO SATELLITE BACK ONLINE-UPDATED 6-8-06

No image op

i wonder if a fragment of 73p hit the camera?

I have heard of a CCD Burnout before.

Perhaps someone better aquainted with this can explain??

No image history for the whole day??????

LOL, no SOHO is in geosyncronus (sp) orbit with the sun. It's nowhere near the comet.

SOHO's been offline for 16+ hours many, many, many times. It's nothing unusual.

73P is not tracked by SOHO anyways, it's tracked by many thousands of obsevatories both private/amateur and professional all around the world.

Sorry. Linkup to image did not work. Do this...

1. Click this link [link to soho.esac.esa.int]

2. In the top left click on the Sun Now-CCD Bakeout logo.

3. Then click on C2 or C3 images.

Sorry for that everybody. I forgot about this sites links. 3DR

actually, soho is between the earth and the sun
and so is the comet

Thanks 3rd day

the fragments could impact the camera even if it wasn't tracking the comet

Don't really care about the comet or jackass Julien for that matter.
Something else is up. I have seen them go many hours without a post, just not this long. Really weird to have a shot like that in the C3 and then totally offline...

Ghostman, your welcome

[link to umbra.nascom.nasa.gov]

Perhaps it's just taking longer then planned? Not an expert... just seems the simplest answer

They have been "Bakin Out" for almost two weeks and the images have been updating until today.

It's in a bakeout. - Read the link at the SOHO page for more information:

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

Nothing unusual, stop panick-ing kids

that strange flash is probably the camera bays opening up for the burn.

nothing unusual, ive been watching soho since the mid nineties..

there have been some unusual things on there before and even apparant 'photoshopping' but not this time i don't think.

I have a file of those SOHO "flash" pictures. A flash usually occurs just before a solar storm comes this way.

Imagine that. Cause-and-effect.

Let's check space weather.

Bingo. Disturbed.

[link to www.windows.ucar.edu]

magnetosphere simulation is also prettty agressive [link to www2.nict.go.jp]

Current Solar Indicies from WWV
06-Jun-2006 at 0304 UTC
SFI = 78 A = 5 K = 1
Conditions during the last 24 hours
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.

Forecast for the next 24 hours
No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.
[link to dx.qsl.net]

nothing unusual here

read up on ccd bakeout

I would be more concerned about that sunspot 892... looks like it could become quite powerful.

According to the site,
its a planned bakeout... Nothing to worry about...

Yeah right.

lens flare

Here are the last images shown before the bakeout.

1 [link to img89.imageshack.us]

2 [link to img89.imageshack.us]

3 [link to img89.imageshack.us]

4 [link to img89.imageshack.us]

"..I have never seen this before and I have been watching this NASA site for a long time..."


You know OP, I've been watching SOHO for a few years myself, and I've seen this happen too many times to bother counting.

The camera malfunctions, it shuts down for awhile and then it comes back.

Same images precede it, either overexposed and/or underexposed areas, partially blocked by the arm or disc.

I'd say all things considered, they do a good job of bringing those images into your home from a satellite halfway to the Sun.

Screeching about a random glitch like this is just silly. Especially when it looks identical to SO many others - even though you apparently missed them all - you're just trying to stir up a reaction from the people who are unfamiliar with SOHO.

You nutcases are all BAKED.

I would like to note that it appears something had been cut out of the picture on May 31, then again June 1 and I haven't visited since then until today.

I wonder if there is any connection.

May 31
[link to groups.msn.com]

June 1
[link to groups.msn.com]

June 5
[link to groups.msn.com]

It's not midnight yet here on the west coast, so still the 5th.

And this bake out is specific to the EIT images only.

Not C2, C3 Lasco or MDIs.

All you've captured is an overloaded sensor.

Yass, did you know that digital images are sent in little squares?

Little squares of information that - when connected correctly - form a complete picture.

When one of those little squares of data gets lost on its one million mile transmission back to Earth, it shows up as a blank square.

But you can pretend it's a Borg Ship if you want.

oMg..!! I step outside and looked up and half of the moon is missing..