New Maunder Minimum?

[Donkeiller]

Has anyone else seen this?

Looks like sunspots may be few and far between in the near future.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/14/the-major-aas-solar-announcement-suns-fading-spots-signal-big-drop-in-solar-activity/#more-41648

[Telrad]

hmmm interesting article - That's all very well, but we have only been measuring the activity of the sun over the last few hundred years..the sun has been around an awfully long time. Who knows if this dip in activity happens every few million years?

[JB80]

It's original source was space.com.

There was a conference held today and they made that announcement.

I'll see if I can dig a link up.

edit:

http://www.space.com/11960-fading-sunspots-slower-solar-activity-solar-cycle.html

The results of the new studies were announced today (June 14) at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society, which is being held this week at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

[AllanJ]

Looks like I got my new Coronado PST last week just in time, then.

Allan