[SEDXC] Good Tidings to DXers and Merry Christmas From Sol

[Robert Carroll]

SOLAR ACTIVITY INTENSIFIES: 2009 is ending with a flurry of sunspots. The
latest is sunspot 1039, which formed yesterday and is now crackling with
low-level solar flares. Cai-Uso Wohler sends this picture of a B-class
<http://spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html?PHPSESSID=fq10i2p8i60mhe
73f181mbhms2>  eruption from his backyard observatory in Bispingen, Germany:

So far, 65% of the days in December have brought sunspots--a sharp increase
in percentages compared to earlier months of 2009 when sunspots were
surpassingly rare. All six of December's sunspot groups have been members of
new Solar Cycle 24. These numbers could herald the sun's awakening from the
deepest solar minimum in nearly a century and a livelier sun in 2010.

 

The above is from an excellent site, www.spaceweather.com

 

73

Bob W2WG