April 2007: The STEREO pair of satellites are sending back simultaneous images from the leading and trailing space-craft. Obviously this provides much better 3D than SOHO and from now on solar 3D images will come from there and this page is historic!
use Red/Cyan goggles to see the sun in 3D
Stereoscopic image made by John Wattie from SOHO satellite images
This image has been made from a single wavelength. When two wavelengths are used, subtle colour details are revealed:
February 20th 2006: stereoscopic sun at two wavelengths
Return to stereoscopic astro photography
What the EIT images are all about
Computer processing of raw EIT data (FITS). The author does not do this - it is very complex. I depend on the GIF files prepared by the EIT team, using the SSW package written in IDL. If you do not understand that, you are not alone!
