CAPTIONS FOR MOVIES


**First Movie -- 2nd movie on Solar Cinema 99 page**

A large CME seen by the LASCO C3 telescope.  The CME is a huge
explosion of gas many miilions of tonnes in weight, travelling at 
about a million miles an hour!  The white circle in the centre
marks the position and size of the Sun.  The black circle is the 
disc of the coronagraph.  The date and time of each image is 
also shown.  

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**The Sun's Crown Section**

**Active Sun movie  -- activesun0**.gif**

This is a LASCO C2 movie that shows the Sun in a more active state
than when SOHO was first launched.
There are many more streamers and CMEs!  The Sun will continue to 
get more active until it reaches its maximum after the year 2000.
The black and white rectangles on the images are regions where data
are missing.
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**Windy Space Section**

**C2 prominence --  CME and Twisted Prominence Movie --  c2prom0*.gif**

These pictures, taken by the LASCO C2 telescope, show a large 
CME emerging from the south-west limb of the Sun.  The CME has a 
well-defined loop shape and is followed by an erupting prominence.
This marvellous prominence is highly twisted giving it a beautiful 
shape.  
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**EIT prominence Movie  --  eitprom0**.gif**

This is a movie of the Sun in ultraviolet light made up of images taken
by the EIT instrument on board SOHO.  It shows an erupting prominence
on the north-east limb.  This huge "flame" is hundreds of times the size 
of the Sun.
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**LASCO the great comet hunter section**

**Milkyway movie**

This movie made from LASCO C3 images shows that LASCO can see more 
than just the Sun's corona.  Moving across the sky in the background 
is the Milkyway (our galaxy), seen as a fuzzy band of stars stretching
from the bottom to the top of each image.  Others stars (little bright
points) can also be seen to move across the sky at the same speed as
the milky way.  Also visible is a sungrazing comet, named SOHO-6 
(since it was the sixth comet to be discovered using SOHO!).
Some of the little bright points on the images do not move with the
stars.  These are caused by energetic particles called cosmic rays, 
hitting the detector of the telescope.  As usual the Sun's size and
poistion is marked by the white circle in the centre

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**Planets movie**
This movie shows two planets entering the field-of-view of the LASCO C3
telescope.  Mercury passing from right to left and Jupiter passing from
left to right.  The bright line through each planet is not physically
connected with the planets.  The detector of the telescope produces
this effect because the light from the planets is very bright. 

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