[PA Engineer]

Here is the current image from spaceweather.com.



One of the problems I have with current sunspot record keeping is that we are using technology now that was not available to observers in the past. In particular the Dalton Minimum did not count many of the proto and actual sunspots that have been counted over the past two years.

[Centurion2000]

One of the problems I have with current sunspot record keeping is that we are using technology now that was not available to observers in the past. In particular the Dalton Minimum did not count many of the proto and actual sunspots that have been counted over the past two years.

So are you proposing that this is actually going to be worse as in closer to a Maunder Minimum?

[Crazieman]

Spaceweather got stupid-cute and scrapped the 30 some odd day continual spotless count because a microspot was evaluated to have formed for a half-second by some agency in Belgium.

[muawiyah]

The “proto” sunspots were “magical thinking”. They didn’t happen. We are not yet into Cycle 24.