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Solar X-Ray Observations (1Jun93) (from NSO, NOAO Newsletter No. 34, 1 June 1993) A recent flight of a soft X-ray (64 A) solar telescope aboard a Black Brandt rocket, launched from White Sands Missile Range, produced excellent high- resolution images of the solar disk and inner corona. The Principal Investigator, Leon Golub (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), was supported by a team from SAO including two graduate students. The photographic images were processed by Lou Gilliam and Todd Brown at NSO/SP. Unfortunately, the payload parachute failed to deploy upon re-entry, resulting in significant damage, although it appears that at least some of the system is recoverable. Fortuitously, the film record remained intact. The flight did confirm the new electronic imaging, data processing and transmission systems that Leon's group have developed for use on the anticipated SWATH satellite experiment, for which SP will provide a small, white-light coronagraph. Ray Smartt, Leon Golub, the SAO Team
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