Solar Physics Vol. 175, No. 2

The First Results from SOHO



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1. Viewing the Images on a Web Browser
2. Listening to the sounds
3. Downloading images/movies/sounds to a local disk
4. Viewing CDS, SUMER and SWAN movies with SHOW_MOV.PRO
5. Viewing LASCO movies with MVIPLAY.PRO
6. Viewing EIT movies with with EIT_MOV.PRO

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1. Viewing the Images with a Web Browser.

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2. Listening to the sounds.
Assumming that you have the proper hardware and software to listen to sound files:

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3. Downloading images/movies/sounds to a local disk.

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4. Viewing CDS, SUMER and SWAN movies with SHOW_MOV.PRO.

  1. Change your working directory to the right directory.

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    1 where <first_author> is the name of the paper's first author.

  2. Determine what movie (save) files are in the directory.

  3. Restore save file.

  4. Play the movie.


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5. Viewing LASCO movies with MVIPLAY.PRO.

  1. Change your working directory to the right directory.

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    1 where <first_author> is the name of the paper's first author.

  2. Determine what MVI files are in the directory.

  3. Play the desired movie.

    Note: In case you are running out of memory when loading a mvi try a combination of these options:

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6. Viewing EIT movies with EIT_MOV.PRO.

  1. Change your working directory to the "moses" directory. (Note: You must set your working directory correctly for IDL to be able to identify and use the EIT color tables file (coloreit) in order to display the movies properly.)

  2. Determine what movie (save) files are in the directory.

  3. Play the desired movie.

You can use the "VCR" buttons to reverse play, pause, forward play, or play the movie back and forth. The speed slider (Frames/Sec) control can be used to adjust the speed of play, and when the movie is paused, the slider just above the Active Slider label can be used to single-step the movie, or to access a particular frame.

The End Animation button will stop the movie and kill the animation widget. The Colors... button will call up the XLOADCT widget to allow changing contrast, transfer functions, and even color tables. (We recommend sticking with the default color table for each movie, as it was defined to bring out particular features visible in images in a single EIT wavelength. You may, however, need to adjust the contrast ("gamma") or the top and bottom values with XLOADCT.)

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