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Computer-aided measurement of the heliographic coordinates of sunspot groups

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Heliographic coordinates are used to identify the positions of solar features, especially the sunspot groups on the Sun’s surface. Tracking the positions of sunspot groups provides information about solar rotation and the movement behavior of sunspot groups over Solar Cycles. Two heliographic coordinates are defined: Carrington and Stonyhurst. The calculations used here depend on three solar parameters, position angle P, latitude angle B 0 and the starting longitude L 0. These values are calculated by using Astronomical Almanac for the observation time. In this study, a computer program called Computer Aided Measurement for Sunspots (CAMS) is presented. The main aim of the program is to determine the heliographic latitude and longitude of the sunspot groups besides other features like the latitudinal and longitudinal length, rectangular area and the tilt angle. This is accomplished by generating the corresponding Stonyhurst disk for the P and B 0 angles of the time of observation and superimposing it onto the scanned drawing. Since 2009, CAMS is being used to process daily solar drawings at the Istanbul University Observatory.

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Thanks to Dr. Tuncay Özışık from the Turkish National Observatory to develop the CAMS and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurol Al Erdoğan from the Istanbul University Science Faculty, Astronomy and Space Sciences Department for the idea to prepare and publish this article. Also, thanks to Asst. Başar Coşkunoğlu for his contributions towards improving the language of the manuscript. Also, thanks to anonymous reviewer for his/her valuable suggestions and comments improving manuscript This work supported by the Istanbul University Scientific Research Projects Commission with the project number 24242.

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Çakmak, H. Computer-aided measurement of the heliographic coordinates of sunspot groups. Exp Astron 38, 77–89 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-014-9410-5

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