November 2, 2016
A short Summary of Carrington Rotation 2182
Carrington Rotation 2182 covered the time period from 2016-09-23 0334 UT until 2016-10-20 1024 UT.
610 Reports and images were submitted and all can be viewed in ALPO’s Solar Archive for CR2182:
http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=89942
A total of 8 Active Regions could be observed during the rotation, AR2593 and AR2596 thru 2602. This is less than half of the previous rotation. We had one day without a reported active region during the rotation on October 2nd. The largest region AR2599, maxed out with a region area of 470 millionths on October 6th. The highest “Total Daily Active Region Area” for the hemisphere was recorded on October 10th with 630 millionths with AR2599 being the dominant contributor with 400 millionths. The highest Wolf number of 64 was recorded on October 11th. The “total active region area” for AR2599 (sum of the daily active region area of an active region for the period the region was visible) is only 71% of the largest region during the previous rotation.
Below we feature images of October 6th and 11th of three of our contributors: Dave Tyler, David Teske and Guilherme Grassman. However, we would like to thank all that contributed to our archive and please take a look at them by clicking on the link above.
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