The QuEST

THE QUEST

The QuEST is a four-episode cartoon video series dealing with some of the EST science goals, explained by the astronomers who first studied them. It is available on the EST YouTube channel. With this series, we expect to communicate solar physics to both teenagers and adults in an informative and entertaining way.

All the episodes can be downloaded freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). For other uses, please contact us. Subtitles in different languages are available thanks to the collaboration of several members of the EST consortium.

EPISODES

EPISODE I: THE QUEST FOR SUNSPOTS The first episode features Galileo Galilei and George E. Hale, two influential solar physicists who studied sunspots with the instruments they built.

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EPISODE II: THE QUEST FOR SPICULES This episode tells the story of Father Secchi, his passion for astronomy, and the discovery of solar spicules.

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EPISODE III: THE QUEST FOR SUNSPOT DYNAMICS John and Mary Evershed spent most of their career at the Kodaikanal Observatory, where they discovered the existence of gas motions in the penumbra of sunspots.

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CHARACTERS

Galileo Galilei Sunspots were discovered in the seventeenth century. Galileo was obsessed with these enigmatic structures. Thanks to his observations, he discovered the rotation of the Sun. See “Episode I. The QuEST for Sunspots”
George Ellery Hale Hale was born in 1868, in Chicago. He built several telescopes in the United States, but his great success was the discovery of intense magnetic fields in sunspots using large spectrographs. See “Episode I. The QuEST for Sunspots”
Angelo Secchi Father Secchi was passionate about astronomy and a pioneer in applying spectroscopy to study the Sun. Thanks to that, Secchi could see some kind of “hairs” at the border of the Sun… SPICULES! See “Episode II. The QuEST for Spicules”
John and Mary Evershed John Evershed and his wife Mary spent most of their scientific careers at the Kodakainal Observatory, in India. They were very active studying the Sun and discovered the existence of strong gas motions in the penumbra of sunspots. See "Episode III. The QuEST for Sunspot Dynamics"
Richard Carrington: On the first of September 1859, Richard Carrington observed something unusual from his observatory. Two very intense beams of white light appeared next to the sunspot he was drawing: a superflare! See Episode IV (COMING SOON)

THE QUEST

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