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Originally Posted by aerohead
when you use the expression 'solar cycle',can you tell me the exact definition connected to this wording.Solar physicists have used other words to describe solar performance.I'd like to be on the same page.
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When I say solar cycle 21, 25 and 26 that only means one thing. The roughly 11 year cycles that have been kept track of since the 1700s.
A regular solar minimum is the end of one solar cycle and the start of the next.
Grand solar minimum usually means the big one in the 1600s and as a reference to a time with extend period of few to no sun spots lasting the length of at least 11 year solar cycle or more.
The next little minimum, a span of 11 year cycles with little to no sun spot activity will likely be cycles 25 and 26, or 26 and 27, maybe 28 before it picks back up.
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