Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age

science.nasa.gov ^ | 09.30.2008 | Dr. Tony Phillips

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Paint an icicle on his nose.

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“To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go back to 1954, three years before the launch of Sputnik, when the sun was blank 241 times.”

*&^%-&*%$# Commie &*(^$*$#!!!!

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Oh - and make a note this article is from 2008!!

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2008 ended with 266 spotless days. 2009 has recorded 119 so far, but as was pointed out in another article, they have reported sub-surface magnetism as “spots”, so the actual count is higher.

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“...so the actual count is higher.”

And like another freeper had pointed out once, when comparing the older historical data (like the Maunder Minimum, etc.) - those spots were counted based on primitive telescope information. So we are counting things that would not have been counted 500 years ago. (Heck - probably 20 years ago!).