November 28, 2016
A short Summary of Carrington Rotation 2183
Carrington Rotation 2183 covered the time period from 2016-10-20 1024 UT until 2016-11-16 1739 UT.
367 Reports and images were submitted for our archive and can be viewed in ALPO’s Solar Archive for CR2183:
http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=91802
During the rotation, 9 Active Regions could be observed. The largest region, AR2607, reached its maximum area of only 100 millionths on November 12th. This is far smaller than the largest area in the previous rotation, and it is also the date where the total area for the Sun maxed out for the rotation at 120 millionths. The Wolf number reached its maximum one day later on November 13th when three regions were visible on the hemisphere for a Wolf number of 38. Carrington Rotation CR2183 showed again a quiet time for the Sun as it did have two days, November 3rd and November 9th, where the total active region area as well as the Wolf number were 0.
We thank all of those who did submit their data and continued their effort to record the solar activity over the years.
For this Rotation we are featuring three random images from our observers. Thanks to them as well as all other contributors for a great rotation. Please take a look at all their submission in our archive, by clicking the link above.
The ALPO Solar Team.
