Solar cycle 19

Solar cycle 19

A solar prominence during solar cycle 19 (11 April 1959).
Sunspot Data
Start date April 1954
End date October 1964
Duration (years) 10.5
Max count 201.3
Max count month March 1958
Min count 9.6
Spotless days 227
Cycle chronology
Previous cycle Solar cycle 18 (1944-1954)
Next cycle Solar cycle 20 (1964-1976)

Solar cycle 19 was the nineteenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began.[1][2] The solar cycle lasted 10.5 years, beginning in April 1954 and ending in October 1964. The International Geophysical Year occurred at the peak of this solar cycle.

The maximum smoothed sunspot number (monthly number of sunspots averaged over a twelve-month period) observed during the solar cycle was 201.3, in March 1958 (the highest on record[3]), and the minimum was 9.6.[4]

There were a total of 227 days with no sunspots during this cycle.[5][6][7]

Extreme events

A geomagnetic storm in February 1956 interfered with radio communications and prompted a search for the British submarine Acheron after it lost radio contact.[8]

Intense red aurora displays frightened people in Europe on 11 February 1958 and were visible from many US cities as far South as the 40th parallel. This geomagnetic storm caused a radio blackout over North America.

Aurora displays were visible over New York, on 13 November 1960 and 1 October 1961.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kane, R.P. (2002). "Some Implications Using the Group Sunspot Number Reconstruction". Solar Physics 205(2), 383-401.
  2. ↑ "The Sun: Did You Say the Sun Has Spots?". Space Today Online. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  3. ↑ Dodson, Helen W.; Hedeman, E. Ruth; Mohler, Orren C. (August 1974). "Comparison of activity in solar cycles 18, 19, and 20". Reviews of Geophysics 12 (3): 329–341. Bibcode:1974RvGSP..12..329D. doi:10.1029/RG012i003p00329.
  4. ↑ SIDC Monthly Smoothed Sunspot Number. ""
  5. ↑ Spotless Days. ""
  6. ↑ What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing) more information: Spotless Days. ""
  7. ↑ Solaemon's Spotless Days Page. ""
  8. ↑ Amsterdam Evening Recorder, 24 February 1956
  9. ↑ http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html


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