Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system (GOES) are a series of geosynchronous satellites operated by the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The GOES system provides us with solar imagery, magnetometer data, solar X-ray data and data on high energy solar protons at Earth. Below you will find solar imagery at a multitude of wavelengths from a number of different GOES missions.

GOES-19 CCOR-1

The Compact Coronagraph-1 (CCOR-1) instrument on board of GOES-19, will image the Sun in the visible wavelength range from 480nm to 730nm. In order to image the much fainter corona, the CCOR-1 instrument will use an occulting disk to block the light originating from the much brighter photosphere of the Sun. As a result, the field of view for CCOR-1 will span from 3.7 solar radii out to 17 solar radii with a spatial resolution of ~50 arcseconds.

GOES-18

GOES-19