STEREO-A Carrington Maps for SECCHI Cor1 Telescope

Carrington Maps summarize short-term and long-term coronal evolution from the STEREO mission. The maps illustrate the corona's transition from a simple two-sectored structure to a complex multi-sectored one, with distortions linked to active regions and coronal mass ejections. National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides these maps for each Carrington Rotation since the mission's start.

Use Cases

• Analyze short-term coronal evolution based on limb maps from Cor1 and Cor2 coronagraphs.
• Study long-term changes in the lower atmosphere based on central meridian maps from the EUVI telescope.
• Identify associations between streamer belt distortions and solar active regions based on limb map features.
• Track the evolution of the corona from a simple to a complex structure based on the map series.

Strengths

• Maps are available for each Carrington Rotation since the beginning of the STEREO mission.
• Includes East and West limb maps from multiple instruments (Cor1, Cor2, HI1/2-A, HI1/2-B).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Time Range

Since the beginning of the STEREO mission.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 11:12:25.159022; freshness should be verified.