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Data from the CHAMP satellite in the southern hemisphere for quiet geomagnetic conditions under high solar activity were selected for analysis. The DMSP satellite data and a model of auroral diffuse precipitation were also used. This model represents two zones of auroral diffuse precipitation on the equatorward and poleward edges of the auroral oval. It is shown that the situation in the winter noon ionosphere of the southern hemisphere depends cardinally on longitude. At sunlit longitudes, only the HLT is observed, and MIT is formed in the shadow region. At intermediate longitudes, both troughs can be observed and, therefore, there is a problem of their separation. The positions of all structures of the ionosphere depend on the longitude; in particular, the positions of the daytime MIT are changed by 6\u00b0\u22127\u00b0. At latitudes of the dayside cusp, both the peak and the minimum of Ne can be observed. A high and narrow peak of Ne is regularly recorded in the CHAMP data at latitudes of the equatorward zone of diffuse precipitation (68\u00b0\u221272\u00b0). In the shadow region, this peak forms the MIT poleward wall, and at sunlit longitudes a quasi-trough equatorward of this peak is sometimes observed. 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