Solar wind velocities for comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) during low orbit plane angles

This dataset was analysed and presented in the <b>‘Solar Wind Velocities at Comets C/2011 L4 Pan-STARRS and C/2013 R1 Lovejoy derived using a New Image Analysis Technique’ paper. Submitted to JGR - Space Physics.</b><br><br>Please contact the author at [e-mail] for info on the software. This dataset was collected from amateur astrophotographers from around the world. The data spanned two weeks on either side of the comet’s perihelion and covers part of Carrington Rotation 2144 and 2145.<br><br>Each image was processed through IDL using the main technique described in the paper to produce radial solar wind velocity estimates from the cometary ion tail of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy).<br><br>The processed variables, including the final solar wind velocity results are stored as individual .sav files for each image. IDL is required to open and analyse these .sav files. the python package readsav is also available - see links below.<br><br><br>In repository:<br><br>1. Processed images as .sav files. To produce a plot of the solar wind velocities, the user will need to access these results from each .sav file and concatenate them.<br><br>File naming convention is comet denomination + datetime_UTC + observer + .fits<br><br><br>***Note:***<br><br>.sav files are saved variables processed via IDL. More info can be found here:<br><br>.sav: https://www.l3harrisgeospatial.com/docs/save.html<br><br>IDL : https://www.l3harrisgeospatial.com/<br><br>The following python package is available to process .sav files though the authors have no experience with this package.<br><br>https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.io.readsav.html