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NASA also made this video of SOHO LASCO's coronagraphs from 1998 to 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DHwNFDgOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DHwNFDgOU
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NASA also made this video of SOHO LASCO's coronagraphs from 1998 to 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DHwNFDgOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DHwNFDgOU
You can see the occulter support flip every few months after 2003 because SOHO developed a problem moving its high gain antenna and has to rotate 180 degrees at certain points in its orbit to communicate with ground stations https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2004_01_04/ https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2004_01_04/