Summer project (CONCyTEG Proyecto de Verano / Guanajuato):
  Learn about solar activity - by your own observing, and by daily SOHO satellite observations

Supervisor: Dr. Klaus-Peter Schroeder (Professor at the Departamento de Astronomia (DA), UGTO, Guanajuato)
 
  "Solar activity", caused by the solar magnetic activity, has many different ways to manifest itself: dark sunspots in the solar photosphere (in the visible light), prominences and flares in the chromosphere (in H_alpha light), and coronal streamers, loops and mass-ejections (CMEs - as observed by the SOHO coronograph). All these activity forms and their daily changes are studied in the course of this summer project. A solar refractor on the roof of our department (see below) allows you to do: (i) your own observations of the solar photosphere with its sun spots, by means of a safe, reflecting white-light objective-filter, as well as (ii) of the solar chromosphere with its prominences by means of a special prominence viewer with H_alpha filter.
 
  This is a summer project with financial support (by CONCyTEG, AMC or DINPO) for mexican licenciatura students. If you are interested (next opportunity: summer 2011), please contact: kps@astro.ugto.mx
 
  Other possible summer projects with us at the DA here in Guanajuato are usually available from several professors, e.g., on galaxy clusters with Dr. Caesar Caretta (caretta@astro.ugto.mx), or in radioastronomy with Dr Solai Jeakumar (sjk@astro.ugto.mx). Please inquire well ahead of time, especially if you will need financial support.
 
  See/download a project description here (en español, pdf-file)
 
 
 
 
  Sunspot group, taken July 10, 2007, during the first GTO Sun project (student: Carlos Flores, Veracruz)
 
 
  Prominences on the limb of the Sun (occulted by a disk) in H_alpha light, taken on July 14, 2008
 
 
  Summerstudents at the DA July 2008: Adela, Ninfa and Javier
 
  Link to SOHO daily observations
 
 

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