News on the solar data available at the Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory


2017-07-01 DPD 2014 and 2002 final revision completed

DPD2014 and DPD2002 - Final quality check of the data is completed. The related web pages are refreshed.
The DPD team of the Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory announces that the final version of Debrecen Photoheliographic Data for the years 2014 and 2002 has been published recently. Although the preliminary version of these datasets published earlier had undergone some quality control but some further systematic checks and improvements had to be applied to present this final version of the data. These are probably the last volumes of DPD that have been published after this type of final check because the revision of the preliminary data within the DPD project has not been supported any longer according to the recent decision of the director of our institute. Any improvements of the old data in DPD or production of any additional data can only be expected in the frame of future research projects of Tünde Baranyi. If you have any requests, comments, questions, or suggestions on the Debrecen solar databases, please mail to baranyi.tunde[at]science.unideb.hu. The DPD team continues publishing of the latest sunspot data based on the space-borne SDO/HMI data and based on the observations of the cooperating ground-based observatories until it is possible.

2017-04-13 Articles have been published on the databases and the history of the observatory

BARANYI, T., GYŐRI, L., LUDMÁNY, A.: 2016, On-line Tools for Solar Data Compiled in the Debrecen Observatory and their Extensions with the Greenwich Sunspot Data, Solar Phys., 291, Issue 9-10, pp. 3081-3102, doi:10.1007/s11207-016-0930-1, arXiv e-print

BARANYI, T., GYŐRI, L., LUDMÁNY, A.: 2016, Heritage of Konkoly's Solar Observations: the Debrecen Photoheliograph Programme and the Debrecen Sunspot Databases, In: Koci, E. (ed.) Conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of Dr. Nicolaus Thege-Konkoly, and 145th anniversary of the founding of the Hurbanovo Observatory, Hurbanovo, Szlovákia, 2016.05.18-2016.05.20. Slovenska Ustredna Hvezdaren, pp. 29-36., arXiv e-print

GYŐRI, L., LUDMÁNY, A., BARANYI, T., : 2017, Comparative analysis of Debrecen sunspot catalogues, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465, (2), 1259-1273, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2667, arXiv Final - Version of Record

2016-11-14 DPD 1978 final revision completed

DPD1978 - Final quality check of the data is completed. The related web pages are refreshed.

2016-09-26 DPD 2001 final revision completed

DPD2001 - Final quality check of the data is completed. The related web pages are refreshed.

2016-06-09 DPD 1974 refreshed

DPD1974 - Some missing days are filled in and full-disk images are uploaded in jpeg format. Web pages are refreshed.

2016-06-03 DPD 1990 updated

DPD1990 - It is partially revised and improved. Full-disk images in jpeg format are completed.

2016-01-01 DPD2016 Quick-Look Sunspot Data and Presentation available

DPD2016 sunspot catalogue is started and newest daily data available on web and ftp site after processing. Quick-look data are measured and calculated using SDO/HMI Ic_NolimbDark_720s_nrt and M_720s_nrt images by Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC). Sunspot groups identified by NOAA numbers and we do unification and separation of sunspot groups in some case. Tilt angles of sunspot groups queryable here and also available on ftp place.

2015-07-18 Full coverage of DPD catalogue is achieved

Several years of DPD have been completed recently (1977-1985, 1991-1992, 2011-2013).
Now there are no days with missing sunspot data after the cease of Greenwich Photoheliographic Results.

2015-04-08 SDO 2014 facular catalogue uploaded

SDO facular catalogue 2014 is uploaded and available on HMIDD page.

2015-04-02 DPD 1982 and 1983 refreshed

DPD1982 and DPD1983 - some missing days are filled in and it is partially revised. Full-disk images are available in jpeg format.

2015-03-10 HMIDD 2014

SDO/HMI - Debrecen Sunspot Data refreshed for the year 2014, (HMIDD) txt catalogue and html presentation available with Full-disk and Magnetogram images, and sunspot polarity drawings are available additionally.

2015-01-16 DPD2015 Quick-Look Sunspot Data and Presentation available

DPD2015 sunspot catalogue is started and newest daily data available on web and ftp site after processing. Quick-look data are measured and calculated using SDO/HMI Ic_NolimbDark_720s_nrt and M_720s_nrt images by Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC). Sunspot groups identified by NOAA numbers and we do unification and separation of sunspot groups in some case. Tilt angles of sunspot groups queryable here and also available on ftp place.

2014-12-01 DPD 1981 refreshed

DPD1981 - some missing days are filled in and it is partially revised. Full-disk images are available in jpeg format.

2014-10-22 DPD2012 and DPD2013 are final

DPD2012 and DPD213- The data sets are complete and final.

2014-08-26 Html presentation of Greenwich Photoheliographic Results

Greenwich Photoheliographic Results (GPR) revised, converted to the DPD format, and completed with solar drawings of Ogyalla, Kalocsa and Mount Wilson observatories. Data and the html presentations are not final yet; they will be changed later. We have calculted some additional values (Julian date, P0, B0) but we have found some mistakes which are under check.

2014-08-09 DPD, SDD, HMIDD - name of data has been modified

The whole spot area was indicated as U+P earlier but it seemed confusing sometimes. The acronym has been changed to WS (WHOLE SPOT area) and WF (WHOLE FACULAR area) in the related sunspot and facular data bases.

2014-07-23 DPD 1980 refreshed

DPD1980 - some missing days are filled in and it is partially revised. Full-disk images are available in jpeg format.

2014-07-21 Additional tool added to the HMIDD presentations.

Additional tool added to the SDO presentations for 2010, 2011 and 2013. This tool helps to study and to look sunspot positions and their polarities.
SDO/HMI - Debrecen Sunspot Data (HMIDD)

2014-06-23 DPD 1978

New data are added to fill in some gaps. Full-disk images are available in jpeg format on the ftp site and in the visual presentation for the year 1978 of Debrecen Photoheliographic Data.

2014-06-20 HMIDD 2014

SDO/HMI - Debrecen Sunspot Data (HMIDD) uploaded. New full-disk and facular catalogue for 2014 are uploaded with SDO/HMI jpg continuum and magnetogram images. Data are processed until 2014.04.30.

2014-05-30 News Page Created

A new page is created to inform the visitors of the data products of the Heliophysical Observatory (Debrecen, Hungary). News on data refreshments, uploaded new data, or web site modifications are available here.

These happened in 2014 before this date:

2014-05-29: DPD2014 - publication of latest daily data based on SDO/HMI images is in progress, refreshed on workdays
2014-05-29: DPD2012 - full revision is in progress, refreshed on workdays
2014-05-13: DPD2000 - fully revised version is published
2014-04-24: DPD1978 - start of completion with Ussuriysk and Herstmonceux plates; partial revision is in progress
2014-04-23: DPD1977 - completed with Ussuriysk and Herstmonceux plates; partially revised
2014-04-22: DPD volumes for 1974-76 are created
2014-04-22: DPD1979 - revised version is published
2014-04-22: DPD1980 - some missing days are filled in, full revision is in progress
2014-04-22: DPD1981 - some missing days are filled in, full revision is in progress
2014-04-22: DPD1990 - some missing days are filled in
2014-04-22: DPD1991 - some missing days are filled in
2014-04-22: DPD1984 - small amount of improved data, new set of group images
2014-04-15: Query for sunspot group tilt angle data derived from DPD is available
2014-04-15: DPD1999 - a few data are improved
2014-04-11: DPD1989 - a few data are improved
2014-04-08: DPD1987 - a few data are improved
2014-03-17: Query for sunspot group tilt angle data derived from SDD is available
2014-03-12: DPD1992 - some missing days are filled in
2014-03-12: DPD2001-2003 - full-disk white-light images are appended to the dataset
2014-03-03: DPD2013 - preliminary complete version is published
2014-01-22: HMIDD2013 - complete version is published