Finally! A sunspot appeared on Wednesday, December 9, giving us a daily sunspot number of 13, following 16 days of no sunspots. And on December 10, the sunspot number was 13. The new group is number 1034, and it is a Solar Cycle 24 spot, as all sunspots have been since number 1016 on April 29-30, 2009. Sunspot numbers for December 3-9 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 and 13 with a mean of 1.9. The 10.7 cm flux was 71.6, 71.5, 71.7, 71.9, 71.1, 72.2 and 73 with a mean of 71.9. The estimated planetary A indices were 0, 0, 3, 2, 2, 1 and 0 with a mean of 1.1. The estimated mid-latitude A indices were 0, 0, 3, 1, 2, 0 and 0 with a mean of 0.86.
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