Important notice about STEREO Behind

STEREO Planet Finder

Shown here are the computed positions of various bright planets (out to Saturn) in SECCHI images for 2012/08/26. In some cases, the planets themselves will not show up in the images, either because they're blocked by an occulter, or because that part of the field of view is missing from the image.

STEREO Behind		STEREO Ahead

The images above are shown in the order of the relative positions of the two viewpoints, Behind and Ahead. For the Heliospheric Imager (HI) images below, the order is reversed to reflect the fact that the HI Ahead telescopes look to the left of the Sun, and those on Behind look to the right. Also, the HI images are not rotated to put solar north up.

STEREO Ahead		STEREO Behind