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