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- The maximum smoothed sunspot number ( monthly number of sunspots averaged over a twelve-month period ) observed during the solar cycle was 98.0 ( February 1860 ), and the minimum was 5.2.
- The maximum smoothed sunspot number ( monthly number of sunspots averaged over a twelve-month period ) observed during the solar cycle was 119.2 ( April 1937 ), and the minimum was 7.7.
- The maximum smoothed sunspot number ( monthly number of sunspots averaged over a twelve-month period ) observed during the solar cycle was 74.6 ( December 1883 ), and the minimum was 5.
- The maximum smoothed sunspot number ( monthly number of sunspots averaged over a twelve-month period ) observed during the solar cycle was 105.4 ( August 1917 ), and the minimum was 5.6.
- The monthly mean sunspot number in the northern solar hemisphere peaked in November 2011, while the southern hemisphere appears to have peaked in February 2014, reaching a peak monthly mean of 102.
- The investigations of the Maunders demonstrated a correlation between the variation in sunspot numbers and the climate of the Earth, leading to the discovery that the period of decreased solar activity during the Maunder Minimum.
- In an extension of this work in 1971 Muggleton showed that the regression coefficients between E-region peak electron density, N _ m ( E ), and sunspot number, R, depend on the particular solar cycle investigated.
- 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 ), and the minimum was 9.6.
- The maximum smoothed sunspot number ( monthly number of sunspots averaged over a twelve-month period ) observed during the solar cycle was 164.5, in December 1979 ( the second-highest peak on record ), and the minimum was 12.3.
- The Dalton minimum in the 400-year history of sunspot numbers, showing the low peaks for solar cycles 5 and 6 . "'Solar cycle 6 "'was the sixth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began.