#16a. Discovery of the Sunspot Cycle
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16. The Sun
16H. Schwabe, 1843
16a. Schwabe paper
16b. Carrington, 1859
17. The Corona
18. Solar Wind
18A. Interplan. Field
18H.Solar Wind obs.
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Excerpts from Solar Observations During 1843 by Heinrich Schwabe, (Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 20., no. 495, 1843)The weather throughout this year was so extremely favorable that I have been able to observe the Sun clearly on 312 days; however, I counted only 34 groups of sunspots....From my earlier observations, which I have reported every year in this journal, it appears that there is a certain periodicity in the appearance of sunspots and this theory seems more and more probable from the results of this year. ...I should like now to add a complete report of all my observations of sunspots up to the present, in which I have indicated the number of days of observation and the days when there were no spots to be seen, as well as the number of groups.
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| Year | No. of Clusters | Days when no Spots were observed | Observation Days |
| 1826 | 118 | 22 | 277 |
| 1827 | 161 | 2 | 273 |
| 1828 | 225 | 0 | 282 |
| 1829 | 199 | 0 | 244 |
| 1830 | 190 | 1 | 217 |
| 1831 | 149 | 3 | 239 |
| 1832 | 84 | 49 | 270 |
| 1833 | 33 | 139 | 267 |
| 1834 | 51 | 120 | 273 |
| 1835 | 173 | 18 | 244 |
| 1836 | 272 | 0 | 200 |
| 1837 | 333 | 0 | 168 |
| 1838 | 282 | 0 | 202 |
| 1839 | 162 | 0 | 205 |
| 1840 | 152 | 3 | 263 |
| 1841 | 102 | 15 | 283 |
| 1842 | 68 | 64 | 307 |
| 1843 | 34 | 149 | 324 |
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You can also find on the web a biography of Schwabe by the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado.
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