News: There will be a delays in serving new CHIP data as a new, more automated, data pipeline is put in place. Thank you for your patience! MLSO will soon be home to the Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter (CoMP), which will be deployed before the end of this year. A web page dedicated to this unique instrument will be added soon, please check back. Funding has been approved for a new coronagraph at MLSO by the end of 2012! This new instrument will provide significantly better signal-to-noise, high time cadence, uniform spatial resolution and will observe lower in the corona than Mk4. For more info on CoMP and the new coronagraph, please see this informative poster: (55 MB pdf). For other current information, please see the News Page.