Date
5-11-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
On July 2, 2019, a total solar eclipse (TSE) was observable from Chile and Argentina. In Chile, I worked alongside the Solar Wind Sherpas, an international group led by Dr. Shadia Habbal from the University of Hawai'i Institute for Astronomy, to make observations of the solar corona and gather information about its elemental composition. Narrow band data were collected for Fe XI, Fe XIV, and Ar X. Data collected during TSE observations can be used to help solve two puzzles in solar physics: the coronal heating problem and the mechanisms responsible for the fast and slow solar winds. Narrow band images were processed and analyzed with MaxIm DL and the process was replicated by code I wrote in Python. The goal for this project was to write image processing code in Python to recreate what the image processing package MaxIm DL does.
Department
Physics
Thesis Comittee
Dr. Martina B. Arndt, Thesis Advisor
Dr. Thomas P. Kling, Committee Member
Copyright and Permissions
Original document was submitted as an Honors Program requirement. Copyright is held by the author.
Recommended Citation
Hayes-Huer, Rydia. (2020). Image Processing of Narrow Band Solar Eclipse Data Using Python and MaxIm DL. In BSU Honors Program Theses and Projects. Item 331. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj/331
Copyright © 2020 Rydia Hayes-Huer