Posted Tuesday September 22, 2008 at http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5.htm :
Today is the first day of the fall season. It began at 1545 UTC. A new solar cycle 24 sunspot group (S731) formed at N20W12 on Sunday September 21, 2008. It should be numbered as 11001 today by NOAA/SWPC. Officially the last solar cycle 24 sunspot group to form (#10993) was on May 4, 2008. Unofficially the last solar cycle 24 sunspot group to form was on August 2, 2008. For what ever reason NOAA/SWPC failed to number this sunspot group. 73 & God Bless, Thomas F. Giella Lakeland, FL, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED],net
