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Solar Cycle 24 Begins

Guest_Sunspot_*	Jan 4 2008, 07:45 PM Post #1
Guests	Latest from spaceweather.com SOLAR CYCLE 24: Solar physicists have been waiting for the appearance of a reversed-polarity sunspot to signal the start of the next solar cycle. The wait is over. A magnetically reversed, high-latitude sunspot emerged today: image. If you have a solar telescope, take a look at this important new active region. It marks the beginning of Solar Cycle 24 and the sun's slow ascent back to Solar Maximum. Magnetic Image Visible Light Image

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Guest_Sunspot_*	Jan 5 2008, 12:43 PM Post #2
Guests	I'm really excited about this news. Apparently the earlier the cycle beings the more intense it is likely to be. The spot group is JUST about visible in my telescope, hardly anything more than a few specs.. but a VERY important one!!

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Sunspot Solar Cycle 24 Begins Jan 4 2008, 07:45 PM

K-P At least here it has been really sunny day, seems ... Jan 5 2008, 12:38 PM

Sunspot I'm really excited about this news. Apparentl... Jan 5 2008, 12:43 PM

nprev Oh, joy. The last double-peaked beauty in '01-... Jan 5 2008, 05:56 PM

Canopus Finally, and I'm glad! Solar minimum is s... Jan 8 2008, 12:13 PM

Sunspot QUOTE (Canopus @ Jan 8 2008, 12:13 PM) Fi... Jan 11 2008, 06:03 PM

Canopus Funny. I last posted in this thread 2 years ago an... Jan 19 2010, 01:29 PM

Sunspot It is weird how in the last month the sun seems to... Jan 19 2010, 02:17 PM

Canopus QUOTE we've had a few false starts Yes, that... Jan 19 2010, 02:51 PM

PhilCo126 There's also some activity on our Sun's si... Feb 9 2010, 05:24 PM

nprev Just gotta express some love for STEREO, here. Thi... Feb 9 2010, 10:50 PM

jamescanvin QUOTE (Ron Hobbs @ Feb 16 2010, 05:19 PM)... Feb 17 2010, 08:31 AM

PDP8E Here is the latest (DEC-2010) update on Solar Mini... Dec 29 2010, 02:53 PM

Gsnorgathon Can someone help out those of us in the peanut gal... Dec 29 2010, 07:22 PM

JohnVV QUOTE How do you get a negative number of sunspots... Dec 29 2010, 11:52 PM

djellison I must be a mathematical dunce - how do you get an... Dec 30 2010, 12:17 AM

nprev I'm not seeing it either. According to spacewe... Dec 30 2010, 12:39 AM

Hungry4info QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 29 2010, 06:39 PM) ... Dec 30 2010, 02:04 AM

PDP8E I have a request in with the scientists that produ... Dec 30 2010, 04:03 PM

djellison Where did it come from? Dec 30 2010, 04:34 PM

PDP8E Doug, The graph came from www.NWRA.com (Northwest ... Dec 30 2010, 08:22 PM

djellison QUOTE (PDP8E @ Dec 30 2010, 12:22 PM) The... Dec 31 2010, 04:59 AM

Gsnorgathon Note that none of the curves are observations - th... Dec 31 2010, 10:01 PM

nprev My guess: They're using some sort of logarithm... Dec 31 2010, 03:10 AM

PDP8E Gsnorgathon is just about right. Here is the ema... Dec 31 2010, 11:06 PM

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Sunspot By far the largest flare of the cycle so far - X7 ... Aug 9 2011, 09:49 AM

Sunspot Very Strong geo magentic storm in progress, just s... Sep 26 2011, 09:40 PM

nprev Man...First time in a LONG time I'm sorry we d... Sep 26 2011, 11:34 PM

Stu Missed the amazing aurora last night because the S... Sep 27 2011, 06:59 PM

Sunspot My aurora pic is too embarrassing to post, its jus... Sep 27 2011, 07:02 PM

SolarSystemRubble I know how you feel. I went out to look at midnigh... Sep 27 2011, 07:20 PM

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