Conveners
Session 3
- Silvano Fineschi (INAF - OATo)
Metis is the coronagraph on board Solar Orbiter. It provides images of the full corona in an annular FoV from 1.7 to 3 degrees, in the broadband linearly polarised light and in the narrowband UV hydrogen Lyman-alpha line. Metis is successfully operating both during the remote sensing windows and throughout the full orbit in a synoptic mode of acquisition. A summary of its performance are...
Up to a few months before the launch of Solar Orbiter, observation windows were planned to be scattered throughout the orbit and mostly concentrated during perihelia. Moreover, perihelia would have been probably dominated by high resolution instruments, with potential off-pointings not compatible with the Metis instrument. As the launch approached, the possibility arose of having a larger data...
Metis is the coronagraph of the scientific payload of Solar Orbiter, an ESA-NASA mission which aims to study the Sun poles and the circumsolar region. The activities necessary to operate Metis are implemented through the Metis Operations Facility (MOF). The MOF is the collection of functionalities and subsystems which allows to plan the instrument observation, validate the observation command...
