solar rotation number
A parameter used by solar observers in describing their data. The system starts, for historical reasons, with rotation #1 on November 9, 1854, and a new rotation begins when the solar central meridian is equal to zero (that is, the Sun has made one apparent rotation). This takes, on average, about 27.275 days.
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