Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph

Data Policy

The use of data obtained with BBSO's telescopes and instrumentation for public education efforts and non-commercial purposes is strongly encouraged and requires no expressed authorization. However, if you want to use our data for any commercial purpose, please contact us.


The data in the BBSO Data Archive might be reduced in spatial, temporal, spectral, and photometric resolution compared to the original data. Users requiring higher level processing or access to a different sample of the original data are invited to contact us.


If you use the data or some product based on the data in a published paper, book, or any other kind of (electronic) publication, we ask that you include the following acknowledgement: We gratefully acknowledge the use of data from the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) of the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). BBSO operation is supported by US NSF AGS-2309939 and AGS-1821294 grants and New Jersey Institute of Technology. GST operation is partly supported by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and the Seoul National University.


Especially, Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph(FISS) operation is supported by Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute(KASI) and Seoul National University(SNU). If you are going to firstly use FISS data, we recommend a contact with SNU group; go to People