1. Cybrotech Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia 2. Hvar Observatory, Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 3. Zagreb Astronomical Observatory, Zagreb, Croatia 4. Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany
Abstract:
Existing methods for conversion between synodic and sidereal rotation velocities of the Sun are tested for validity using state-of-the-art ephemeris data. We found that some of them agree well with ephemeris calculations while others show a discrepancy of almost 0.01° day?1. This discrepancy is attributed to a missing factor and a new corrected relation is given.