LACLARE , Francis

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The results here discussed were produced by a program of visual observations carried out at the Calern Observatory from 1975 to 1998. The sun radius data collected display some variability, in particular an oscillation of 0.2″amplitude and 11.8 years period which seems anticorrelated with the sunspot cycle. These apparent variations might also...

In order to deduce significant astrophysical results from solar diameter measurements it is necessary to take an accurate account of instrumental and atmospheric effects. This paper presents a comparison between visual and charge coupled device (CCD) camera measurements performed by means of the Calern Observatory solar astrolabe during the...

A method is presented allowing one to estimate, in the case of daytime observations, the angle-of-arrival isoplanatic patch size from the measurement of the differential image motion of the solar limb. The experimental results have been obtained using the solar astrolabe of Calern Observatory (CERGA-France). Performing a modelization as...

As a consequence of an astrometry program, conducted since 1975 on a solar astrolabe at the Calern Observatory (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur), we have obtained a data set of apparent solar diameters which encompasses periods greater than one solar cycle. From a set of more than 5000 visual observations, made by the same observer between 1975...

Diameter measurements performed with the solar astrolabe are affected by instrumental and atmospheric effects. The problem is to know how these effects contribute to the error on diameter measurements. Thus, a numerical simulation is developed to bring some responses to this problem. For this purpose, synthetic images of the Sun similar to the...

The series of measurements of the Solar radius at CALERN site of the observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) spans about 30 years. Measurements of the Sun were first achieved visually by the same single observer, then gradually grew more man-independent with the use of CCD acquisitions. The DORAYSOL instrument was designed and built up to keep...

Good edge extraction from temporal series of solar images is fundamental in the solar astrolabe experiment. Noise and spots in images cause however, difficulties to extract an accurate solar edge. We present in this paper a new image-processing method which solves this problem and thus improves the characteristics of the solar astrolabe...

Solar diameter measurements performed at Calern Observatory astrolabe during more than two solar cycles show variations at various time scales in a broad range. Due to seasonal effects and instrumental characteristics, the recorded data are not sampled uniformly and present some gaps during these years. This time series has been analyzed by...

Object images obtained by mean of ground based instrument are degraded by the earth atmosphere. Indeed, the wave-front at the entrance of the instrument pupil, present phase and amplitude random fluctuations depending of the time, the position and the line of sight. The recorded images are consequently filtered leading to bad measurements of...

Solar diameter measurements performed with the Calern Observatory astrolabe (O.C.A - France) during more than two solar cycles show temporal variations. Due to the weather, seasonal effects and instrumental characteristics, recorded solar data are non uniformly sampled and present temporal gaps. Thus, to analyze these data, diameter...

PICARD SOL is the ground component of the PICARD mission and is operational since March 2011. A set of instruments including the replica of the space instrument and several atmospheric monitors was set up at Calern observatory in order to compare solar radius measured in space and on ground and to better understand and calibrate atmospheric...