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Predicted orbits of Parker Solar Probe, Bepi Colombo, and Solar Orbiter 2018-2025 (HCI, HEEQ)
These videos are a guide for coordinated observations of several spacecraft observing large-scale structures in the solar wind: high speed solar wind streams and coronal mass ejections (solar storms).
Earth is either at a fixed position at 0° longitude (HEEQ) or moves in an inertial system (HCI). Both movies are available in a black or white background version.
The predicted trajectories of Parker Solar Probe, Bepi Colombo and Solar Orbiter (assuming a February 2020 launch) are plotted with lines +/- 60 days around the current position.
The spacecraft (squares) and planets (circles) can be identified by the color code at the right side. Positions of planets with solar wind monitors (Earth: ACE, Wind, DSCOVR) and Mars (MAVEN) and the other mentioned spacecraft are shown on the top left (HEEQ or HCI coordinates, heliocentric distance - longitude - latitude).
This was done with heliopy (many thanks to @davidstansby)
https://docs.heliopy.org/en/stable/
and sunpy, astropy, spiceypy, seaborn, pickle, numba
Christian Möstl, ÖAW, IWF Graz, Austria.
March 2019
https://twitter.com/chrisoutofspace
http://www.iwf.oeaw.ac.at/user-site/c...
https://github.com/cmoestl