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Carrington longitude AR coordinate stored in archive?


Drax Spacex

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Is the Carrington longitude coordinate for active regions stored in the spaceweatherlive archives?  Carrington longitude is useful for determining the persistence of an active region over multiple rotations.  I only find Stonyhurst Coordinates.

The SWPC Solar Region Summary records in the "Lo" column the Carrington longitude for each active region.

Carrington longitude can also be calculated from Stonyhurst longitude given the daily value of Lt (the current Carrington longitude line) which is handwritten on the daily SWPC Solar Synoptic Map.  Lt is likely also available from other sources, and could even be calculated for any given date and time using the right formula/algorithm.

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7 hours ago, Drax Spacex said:

Is the Carrington longitude coordinate for active regions stored in the spaceweatherlive archives?  Carrington longitude is useful for determining the persistence of an active region over multiple rotations.  I only find Stonyhurst Coordinates.

I'm not aware of it in the archive, so I use a site called Helio HEC, provided by University College London. I am unable to submit a link as it is not a secure site, but a Google search should bring it up.

Just update the text in the box at the top of the page to enter the AR number you are looking for, then press submit.

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13 hours ago, 3gMike said:

I'm not aware of it in the archive, so I use a site called Helio HEC, provided by University College London. I am unable to submit a link as it is not a secure site, but a Google search should bring it up.

Just update the text in the box at the top of the page to enter the AR number you are looking for, then press submit.

I tried a google search and found something called Helio HEC GUI but I don't think it's the same thing.  The search field there is for catalog name match.

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