Date: 22/04/2022 20:43:34
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1875714
Subject: Aditya-L1

The success of the SOHO space telescope studying the Sun has now led to an Indian clone called Aditya-L1 to be launched by ISRO.

Planned launch date Sept/Oct 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya-L1

You’ll see from the following that the optics is quite different to SOHO. SOHO’s main camera is a purely refracting telescope with coronagraph. SUIT is a reflecting telescope.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2204/2204.07732.pdf

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