24周期尚未正式被确认开始！被观测到的那个“活跃地区”符合高纬度、极性反转这两个标志着新的周期开始的太阳黑子的特性，但问题是她还不是一个真正的太阳黑子！ :d 但很可能发展成为一个，也许本周就有结果，大家拭目以待！
以下摘自今天的
http://www.spaceweather.com/anticipation: will it turn into a sunspot--or not? that's the question solar physicists around the world are asking themselves this week as a bright knot of reversed-polarity magnetism crosses the face of the sun. on the answer hinges the beginning of a new solar cycle.
yesterday in rockville, maryland, greg piepol used his coronado solarmax90 to photograph the region of interest:
as explained in a recent story from science@nasa, new sunspot cycles always begin with a high-latitude, reversed polarity sunspot. this little active region is both high-latitude and reversed polarity. all it has to do to trumpet the start of a new solar cycle is coelesce into a genuine sunspot.
"hopefully this active region is the harbinger of good news for the new year!" says piepol, who craves more solar activity than the low ebb we've been experiencing in 2007. will a new-cycle spot emerge this week? stay tuned.
