SPECKLE OBSERVATIONS OF SOLAR GRANULATION

We present observations of solar granulation in a plage region near disc centre obtained with the Vacuum Tower Telescope at Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife. Speckle methods were employed for data acquisition and data reduction. The images show small-scale structures of the size near the telescopic diffraction limit of 0.2 arcsec. We call attention to bright lanes at the borders between granules and intergranular areas. Conceivably, they are the intensity signature of strong upflows at the border of granules or of shocks in supersonic convection which are predicted by computer simulations of the granular phenomenon.