I decided to make an animated GIF of the latest cycle 24 sunspot, dubbed number 1002, which was literally a “flash in the pan”.
Credit: SOHO/MDI
One thing that has been common so far with all cycle 24 sunspots this year is that they have been small and very short lived. This one lived just slightly more than a whole day, a mere blip in solar time, where some sunspots will survive for a whole solar rotation (27 days) or more.
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In fact i think the real anomaly stand in duration, just one day or two every single speck(not a spot indeed)
Antony I enjoy reading your blog daily ,several times for updates.My thinking is we will see more effects this winter from the sun’ s lack of sunspots.What are your thoughts about this coming winter in the U.S.?
1002 has to be the shortest lived sunspot… DIB… died at birth… 😉
Maybe the sun is depressed after the NASA press conference and just doesn’t feel like showing its spots for very long.
spotlet?
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Did he measure the magnetism from it? 2015 or no?
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Like the old vaudeville comedian said, “Just warmin’ up.”
Maybe next time.
Not depressed. Upset:
“There are 2 distinct spots, 5:30 pm PDT, and they are both elongated, forming a set of furrowed eyebrows. or an arc.”
1002 is on life support, but still there – barely – for now
“Region 1002 (N26W40) was quiet and stable and has decayed to a small C-type sunspot group.”
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/forecast.html
Would be interesting to apply a “Medieval filter” to the sunspot count to “correct” the numbers.
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By the way…
Region 1002, the ‘quiet… stable…decaying’ Region 1002
is the reason a Maunder Minimum is not likely.
Yes, 1002 was the ONLY reason given by Professor Dr. Nancy Crooker of Boston University during the NASA conference today, when she stated that “a Maunder Minimum is not likely.”
So I think we should all be a little more respectful of Region 1002.
REPLY: Yeah when I heard that, I thought to myself “wow, she’s really reaching here”. – Anthony
That’s what, the second little group this month? If I recall correctly, the other was an SC23 event at the equator {and that was stretching it at that, considering how weak and anemic that event turned out to be!}.
Maybe we’ll get a spotless October.
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That sunspot was Ol’ Sol peepin’ from slumber or winkin’ at NASA.
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kim (15:35:47) :
Did he measure the magnetism from it? 2015 or no?
I’ll ask Bill Livingston, but remember that there is always a certain ‘spread’ in the values so we cannot expect this spot to be exactly on the ‘line’, only that is within the usual spread around the line. We’ll see what he says.
By following all theses discussions on teh Sun, and the science pages linked, I’ve gained a deeper understaning. This sunspot was more obvious in the magnetic dopmain, and lasted longer. Thus, I now understand that the magnetism drives the sunspot holes.
However, it hasn’t improved my typing 🙁
Anthony and everybody else,
Planet Gore posts a rather intereseting piece on the question of whether climate science can currently answer the questions being posed to it? Richard Linzen, the paper’s author, linked to by PG, says emphatically NO! It’s only pages in PDF form. Here is the link.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.3762.pdf
There seems to be more activity popping up on the sun this afternoon – not quite so blank as it’s been of late…
I’ll be very interested to see how it looks in the morning.
Another Tiny-Tim sunspeck….
6:00 pm No Ca PDT, the spot is gone from visibility, it was a smudge this morning in my 70mm refractor. Alas poor 1002, we hardly knew ya.
But the trend since 05/23/08 holds: The spots start in the lower ebb of Planetary A index and Solar Wind Velocity, and end when those indices flatten out.
That’s the way Ol Sol is behaving these last 4 months.
Go Figure.
AnonyMoose (15:50:05) :
Not depressed. Upset:
“There are 2 distinct spots, 5:30 pm PDT, and they are both elongated, forming a set of furrowed eyebrows. or an arc.”
AnonyMoose–give me a break! It was so small and imoptent that I couldn’t tell if that was a frown or furrow. On closer look it does indeed look like a furrow. If NASA keeps this up we may get no spots at all.
Doug Janeway
[snip sorry – not an appropriate comment – Anthony]
(heavens, I love this place!)