Electro-Optical Lyot Filter Automation

Lyot Filters offer solar physicists the advantage of full-disk imagery combined with spectropolarimetry, enabling the observation and analysis of solar activity in detail. This technology not only captures physical interactions on the sun's surface but also provides mapping of spectral characteristics such as Doppler shifts. This capability, along with the extended observational periods afforded by space-based operations, drives the development of the Lyot Filter Demonstration Instrument (LFDI) at NSF-NCAR's High Altitude Observatory