Announcements
June 24, 2002, New White-light CCD camera	The solar physics department of the Royal Observatory of Belgium is happy to announce the first light taken with the new White-Light CCD camera.
May 21, 2002, New H-alpha CCD camera	The solar physics department of the Royal Observatory of Belgium is happy to announce the first light taken with the new H-alpha CCD camera.
Feb 6, 2002, Clickable maps	The SIDC introduces a new utility for our website visitors: a set of clickable maps containing many links to Space Weather data.
May 2000, SIDC has been granted the status of RWC	During the Space Weather week (May 1-5 2000) in Boulder (US), the International Space Environment Service (ISES) assembled. At this meeting, it was approved that the SIDC will take over most of the activities previously performed at the observatory of Meudon. As such, the SIDC has now officially become a Regional Warning Center of the ISES. The RWC Brussels service of the SIDC will provide space weather forecasts and warnings to users in Western Europe.
Feb 23, 2000, A new start for the SIDC	Since 1981, the Royal Observatory of Belgium harbours the 'Sunspot Index Data Center', the World data Center for the Sunspot Index and a data analysis service of the FAGS. Recently, the forecast center of Paris-Meudon (Regional Warning Center of the International Service of Space Environment, ISES) was transferred and added to the activities of the SIDC. Moreover, a complete archive of all images of the SOHO instrument EIT (and in the future also of the STEREO mission) has become available at the SIDC. Given all these extensions, the new style SIDC has become a 'Solar Influences Data Center' that analyses the solar activity on different timescales.