On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:55:13 -0600, Richard Seaman wrote: > (the [sunspot] cycles are 14 years or so in length, aren't they)?
As I recall, the "conventional wisdom" is that the cycle is 11 years long. We're approximately a year past the peak right now. There seems to be suspicion in parts of the astronomical community that eleven isn't quite right and the cycle is actually 22, 44, or 88 years long. I don't believe that we've been able to do accurate measurements for all that long, like maybe a bit over a hundred years, so we might not have tracked even one complete cycle, yet. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
