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 Serious astronomy buff, inventor, author
  by Matthew Perkins Erwin
 

Q: Regarding the current positioning of the Poles of the Sun...

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/Pr_13_2003_s_en.html

"this is due to the way in which the polarity changed during solar maximum. Instead of
reversing completely, flipping north to south, the Sun's magnetic poles have only rotated
at halfway and are now more or less lying sideways along the Sun's equator."

I understand from the quote that those were the measurements at the time of how the poles
were magnetically positioning themselves as configuration. Has this configuration remained
as an equatorial placement of the N/S poles still lying E/W? Are there further documents
indicating the precise current positioning as actual measurements taken that I can in fact
reference in the interests of scientific accuracy?


Thank you for your professional courtesy on achieving the accurate answer to this question.



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