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Telamon wrote:

In article 48f13312.2105984@chupacabra,
Bob Dobbs wrote:

Dave wrote:
NEW SUNSPOT: A new sunspot is emerging near the sun's northeastern limb.
It's the biggest active region in months and appears to be a member of
new Solar Cycle 24.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Probably shouldn't complain about the slow sputtering start
(careful what you wish for)
if our maternal star decides to get really weird
and steal the headlines from the financial doomsday.

It's a little premature to get all excited about one sunspot group.
We had zero in Aug and one in Sept and nearly halfway through this month
one so far means nothing.

The prediction model by NOAA was updated last April. According to it the
time for increasing sun spots is now to early 2009. I'm betting early
2009. Note the old broken lines are the 2007 predictions.

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/SC24/index.html

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Telamon
Ventura, California