"Eclipse Watch: View Eclipses from Space Any Time with New Tool"

A new online tool called Eclipse Watch allows users to observe eclipse-like images of the Sun's outer atmosphere captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) in real time, providing a preview of the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The tool displays images from the spacecraft's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) instrument, offering a glimpse of what can be witnessed during the eclipse. SOHO, launched in 1995, studies the Sun and its outer corona, and Eclipse Watch is an extension of the Helioviewer tool, supporting exploratory data analysis and enabling researchers to monitor solar events.