{"id":15271,"date":"2017-12-05T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15271"},"modified":"2017-12-05T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:37:44","slug":"sunspots-becoming-rarer-as-cycle-heads-toward-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15271","title":{"rendered":"Sunspots becoming rarer as cycle heads toward minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Zimmerman posts his latest report on the sunspot cycle:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/essays-and-commentaries\/the-sun-goes-quiet-sunspot-update-for-november-2017\/\">The Sun goes quiet! Sunspot update for November 2017 | Behind The Black<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The past month was the most inactive month for sunspots since the middle of 2009, when the last solar minimum was just ending and the Sun was beginning its ramp up to solar maximum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/essays-and-commentaries\/the-sun-goes-quiet-sunspot-update-for-november-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15272\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=15272\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sunspot1712041.gif\" data-orig-size=\"720,550\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sunspot Dec 4, 2017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sunspot1712041.gif\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15272\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sunspot1712041.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sun has a blank look today\u00a0as well:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15273\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=15273\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hmi18981.gif\" data-orig-size=\"1898,1898\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Sun &amp;#8211; Dec.5.2017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hmi18981-1024x1024.gif\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15273\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hmi18981-1024x1024.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hmi18981-1024x1024.gif 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hmi18981-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hmi18981-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hmi18981-768x768.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?page_id=1759\" target=\"_d\">HobbySpace Sun &amp; Space Weather page<\/a>\u00a0 for daily images and data for solar and space weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sampling of solar\/space weather related Twitter feeds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spaceweather\" target=\"_d\">Space Weather (@spaceweather) | Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesuntoday\" target=\"_d\">The Sun Today (@TheSunToday) | Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASASun\" target=\"_d\">NASA Sun &amp; Space (@NASASun) | Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=electronics&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=050b1c5bff318dda1f344463c2bc2099&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Zimmerman posts his latest report on the sunspot cycle:\u00a0The Sun goes quiet! Sunspot update for November 2017 | Behind The Black\u00a0\u00a0 The past month was the most inactive month for sunspots since the middle of 2009, when the last solar minimum was just ending and the Sun was beginning its ramp up to solar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunspots becoming rarer as cycle heads toward minimum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Yj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12723,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12723","url_meta":{"origin":15271,"position":0},"title":"The Sun goes spotless as it falls towards a Minimum","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sun has gone spotless as it enters the less active phase of the solar cycle:\u00a0Vanishing Sunspots - Spaceweather.com - June.4.2016\u00a0- Forecasters expect the next Solar Minimum to arrive in 2019-2020. 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