spacepy.empiricals.getSolarRotation¶
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spacepy.empiricals.
getSolarRotation
(ticks, rtype='carrington', fp=False, reverse=False)[source]¶ Calculates solar rotation number (Carrington or Bartels) for a given date/time
Parameters: ticks : spacepy.time.Ticktock or datetime.datetime
Returns: rnumber : integer or array
Carrington (or Bartels) rotation number