:Product: 20020628SRS.txt :Issued: 2002 Jun 28 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 179 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Jun 2002 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 0005 N12W72 322 0110 Cso 07 02 Beta 0008 S12W41 291 0520 Cko 09 09 Beta-Gamma 0011 S11W05 255 0080 Dai 08 23 Beta 0015 S28W01 251 0030 Dro 06 09 Beta 0016 S15E43 207 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 0017 S19E14 236 0010 Axx 01 02 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo 0010 S13W66 317 0012 N21W35 286 0013 N04W46 297 0014 S17W02 253 II. Regions Due to Return 28 Jun to 30 Jun Nmbr Lat Lo 9987 S15 144 9993 N06 149 9999 S05 123 This message is for users of the NOAA/SEC Space Weather Operations sunspot region numbers. As you may have noticed, region number 10000 was assigned on June 14. Space Weather operations is going through the sequence of Region numbers as 9998, 9999, 0000, 0001, and so on. SEC's product text discussions of the active regions will ignore the leading zeroes (for example, we will say 'Region number 5' rather than Region number '0005'). However, the Geoalert product, the Region Report product, as well as the USAF and ISES data exchange codes will preserve the 4 digit format. The necessity of using four digits is for operational purposes only. For historical purposes all regions beyond Region 9999 will be understood to be in a series of region numbers 10000 and higher.