What instruments are used in finding solar flares?
Solar flares are rarely seen as optical events on the sun .Instead, astronomers on the ground use special ‘solar filters’ that isolate the light produced by, say, hydrogen gas. Solar flares appear as brief (minutes to hours) brightenings in the shapes of prominences and sunspots. With X-ray telescopes in space, even clearer images of them can be seen, and this has become a very common way to spot them now that we have satellites with x-ray sensors. Dr.
