The SOUP and CIP instruments

Solar physics is about to undergo a revolution in the amount and quality of undistorted high resolution filter-grams and spectra available for study. Spacelab 2 will obtain UV and visible data comparable to the best obtained on Earth, but free of both blurring and image distortion. The goals of the Spacelab 2 flight are to collect data on the evolution of the solar magnetic and velocity fields on time scales of seconds to days. In the first part of the next decade, the 1.3 meter aperture Solar Optical Telescope will have sufficient spatial resolution to collect data on the scale of the solar density scale height ～ 100 km] which should be sufficient to study the basic physical processes in the solar atmosphere.