On Friday, 11 November 2022 at 13:07:54 UTC+1, Revo Metanurm wrote:
Hello !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are You doing ?
Want to inform ?
Thank you for your interest.
Raw number of sunspots count is not published.
What is published is Wolf number, called international sunspot number.
What I publish is raw data, manual sunspots count "s"
neither revised nor scalled up or down
So it makes sense to count the real number of sunspots.
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Wolf number
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolf number since 1750.
The Wolf number (also known as the relative sunspot number or Zürich number) is a quantity that measures the number of sunspots and groups of sunspots present on the surface of the Sun.
Contents
1 History
2 Calculation
2.1 Smoothed monthly mean
3 Alternative series
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History
Astronomers have been observing the Sun recording information about sunspots since the advent of the telescope in 1609.[1] However, the idea of compiling the information about the sunspot number from various observers originates in Rudolf Wolf in 1848[2]
in Zürich, Switzerland. The produced series initially had his name, but now it is more commonly referred to as the international sunspot number series.
The international sunspot number series is still being produced today at the observatory of Brussels.[3] The international number series shows an approximate p
