INSTRUMENT DESIGN

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The above picture shows the COR1 flight unit cutaway

The COR1 telescope on STEREO is based on the classic design by Bernard Lyot, adapted for spaceflight by engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Swales Aerospace.

COR1 is an internally-occulted coronagraph of length ~1.2m and is one of the STEREO SECCHI suite of remote sensing telescopes.

A detailed review of the COR1 instrument is described in the paper titled, 'COR1 inner coronagraph for STEREO-SECCHI.PDF' (Innovative Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics, SPIE, Volume 4853 Pages 1-11, 2003)

COR1 instrument stages

Various stages of construction of the COR1 instrument

COR1 instrument in 3D

COR1 instrument in 3D as viewed through a normal pair of red-blue glasses with blue on right eye and prepared with the software program Anaglyph Maker