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Solar Observer· User Guide

A complete walkthrough of the dashboard: how to read every monitoring page, operate the radio and analysis tools, use the forecast, timeline and archive, and the concepts you need to interpret the data. Use the search box to jump straight to a page or term.

Getting Started

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How the dashboard is laid out, how to move around it, and the interface conventions that apply on every page.

Real-Time Monitoring

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The live pages that chart the current state of the Sun, the solar wind and Earth's geomagnetic field.

Solar Radio & Burst Tools

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e-CALLISTO radio spectrograms: live monitoring, ML burst detection and the interactive FITS analyzer.

Imaging & Analysis

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SunPy-powered SDO/AIA tools for plotting, difference imaging, compositing, active-region detection and movies.

Events, Forecast & Archive

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Looking ahead (forecasts), looking across time (timeline), staying informed (alerts) and looking back (archive).

Settings & Reference

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Personalize appearance and notifications, and find the scientific reference behind the data.

Key Concepts

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The space-weather terms you need to interpret the numbers: flare classes, indices, solar-wind fields and forecast scales.