About Us
Welcome to SolarMonitor.org, hosted and developed by a team of researchers within the Solar Physics Group at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. These pages contain near-realtime and archived images, timeseries data and other information on active regions and solar activity.
Launched in 2001, SolarMonitor has undergone numerous frontend and backend redesigns. Due to the websites extensive history the IDL source code became outdated and thus increasingly difficult to maintain. In 2020 the Python redevelopment of old SolarMonitor from the ground up began.
This site is a work in progress, with new features and data sources are added regularly. Feedback can be provided by posting an issue to our github issue tracker, by emailing the SolarMonitor Team, or by tweeting us @solarmonitororg.
Our Team
Peter Gallagher
P.I.
Senior Professor & Head of Astronomy & Astrophysics Section, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studied (DIAS)
Alasdair Wilson
Developer
Research Software Engineer, University of Oxford
Shane Maloney
Developer
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studied (DIAS)
Sophie Murray
Developer
Technical Officer, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studied (DIAS)
David Connolly
Developer
Undergraduate Student in Physics and Data Science
Imogen Nagle
Developer
Undergraduate Student in Physics
Paul Wright
Developer
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studied (DIAS)
Alumni
Eoin Carley
Ruth Moore
Oscar O'Hara
Aoife McCloskey
Iain Billett
Simon Free
David O'Callaghan
David Pérez-Suárez
D. Shaun Bloomfield
R. T. James McAteer
Donna Rogers-Lee
Russell J. Hewett
Eoin Carley
Ruth Moore
Oscar O'Hara
Aoife McCloskey
Iain Billett
Simon Free
David O'Callaghan
David Pérez-Suárez
D. Shaun Bloomfield
R. T. James McAteer
Donna Rogers-Lee
Russell J. Hewett
Acknowledgments
It would be appreciated if publications based on data downloaded from these pages would acknowledge SolarMonitor.org and the relevant initial data source listed below. Suggested acknowledgement: "Data supplied courtesy of SolarMonitor".
Data
- NOAA Solar Region Summaries, Solar Event Lists, GOES X-rays, proton and electron data from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
- SDO Data supplied courtesy of the SDO/HMI and SDO/AIA consortia. SDO is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program.
- SUVI data are supplied by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
- STIX data are provided by Solar Orbiter, a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, operated by ESA
Software
SolarMonitor makes extensive use of open-source software packages:
- Sunpy is a community-developed, free and open-source solar data analysis environment for Python. SolarMonitor makes use of Sunpy, and Sunpy affiliated packages, for plotting and data retrieval.
- SolarMonitor makes use of Astropy: a community-developed core Python package and an ecosystem of tools and resources for astronomy