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Old 26-April-2008, 12:43 PM
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Default Graph of Sunspots with Solar Latitude of SSB and Gas Giants

I made a graph of the continuous series of Daily Sunspot Numbers (i.e. since late Dec 1848) with the Solar Latitude of the Solar System Barycentre (SSB) as well as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune continued a little way into the future (click image for larger version):


The horizontal scale is in 11 year intervals since 1845, the vertical scale for the planets and SSB is 0.2 radians per faint line from the centre line through the curves, and for sunspot numbers is 100 per faint line from the bottom.

One thing this shows clearly is how closely the SSB latitude is tied to Jupiter, and how the contribution from other planets also perturbing the Sun periodically causes the SSB to move away from Jupiter's latitude and back again, with some quite sharp deviations at times.

Perhaps rtomes could explain what his ideas say regarding the relationships graphed above?


Data sources for graph:
Daily sunspot data from SIDC.
Daily solar latitudes of the SSB and all planets calculated by the NASA JPL Horizons online ephemeris.
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