Posted on 04/09/2018 2:11:54 PM PDT by Voption
March 2018 was the least active month for sunspots since the middle of 2009, almost nine years ago. In fact, activity in the past few months has been so low it matches the low activity seen in late 2007 and early 2008, ten years ago when the last solar minimum began
(Excerpt) Read more at behindtheblack.com ...
Can sunspots go below Zer0?
I’d guess that measurements some related features could extend the scale.
Only when divided by minus zero.
Get ready for Eddy — the Eddy Minimum could take us into a “Little Ice Age.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/12/potential-agricultural-impact-of-the-eddy-minimum/
ping
“Can sunspots go below Zer0?”
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I suppose if you take historical numbers and average them, you could come up with a “below average” figure. But when there’s nothing, it’s just nothing.
Eddy? How about Gore (blame it on him) or Trump (for the history books and likely he’ll get blame for everything anyway).
I’m not the one to explain this, but briefly:
No, the count cannot fall below zero.
-sunspots have been tracked for a long time across history, and while the quality of our scientific-instruments has increased dramatically across time, by-convention they count the Sunspots using what has been a relatively stable methodology, procedure & agreement. (People have tried to manipulate the Data-set in the recent past.)
—see https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
for information on the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory.
(and there are none visible right now)
The more sunspots the hotter the sun’s heat emissions, the fewer the colder.
Buy heating stocks and clean up in the coming mini ice age. Just be sure you are a long way away from the coming glaciers, which BTW historically reached their 2 mile height in 100 years.
just hope the clone folks do not clone Smilodons and Cave Bears ... Aurochs would be ok,
Here we go...
“How do Astronomers Count Sunspots?”
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/how-astronomers-count-sunspots15022016513/
“In 1847, at a small observatory in Bern, Switzerland, a man named Rudolf Wolf started counting sunspots. He worked diligently, peering through a telescope every day, if he could, and recording the number of spots he observed. Curious about how the number of sunspots varied over time, he later compiled all the sunspot data he could find, going back to the year 1700....”
Yeah, it does that every 11 years. That’s why they call it the sunspot ‘cycle’...
Proud dad moment. My kid works on the SOHO satellite.
That's pretty cool - I've always loved astronomy, science, etc. My daughter does too - but doesn't quite have the aptitude to make it her work. :(
How often does your son make it make to earth? ;)
I would imagine that “zero” sunspots back in the 1800’s and 1700’ss and even perhaps the 1990’s did not detect all of the sunspots if they were small enough. So - a “zero” in 1800 might mean there were still 5 sunspots, so if we just see one, that might be a -4 using the 1800 scale!?
I was taught in the 3rd grade that the sun was on an 11 year cycle. It appears that that knowledge is now beyond the comprehension of almost all university ‘educated’ scientists.
That’s sorta where I’m going, but I really don’t know much about the Science of the Sun.
I think that Sunspots have to do at least with the energy of the surface of the sun.
With the progress of remote Sun sensing in the last half Century, I’d guess that there are likely other observable characteristics that could provide measurements of Sun Energy below the level of Zer0 Sunspots, and thus extend the scale.
From the drawing it looks like they sported quite a set.
In the words of the immortal Billy Preston;
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin' if you want to be with me
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin' if you want to be with me
I'm not tryin' to be your hero
'Cause that zero is too cold for me, Brrr
We are at the end of cycle 24, and no sunspots was expected. Sunspots are a symptom of electric magnetic activity. The sun is putting out the same energy per square foot as it always did, but the lack of solar wind allows cosmic radiation to accumulate in our atmosphere possibly affecting weather.
Ice age is the normal climate. We may be going back to it sooner than later.
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