Watching the Sun -the relationship to Earth events
The sun has energetic cycles like every other living, dynamic or organic system in existence. The cycles of the sun relate to the level of sunspot activity which has been observed to approximately follow 11 year cycles. Currently we are in Cycle 24 in terms of modern era measurement. Sunspots explained Sunspot Cycle explained Solar Cycle 24 explained Traditional astrophysics provides us with an exciting array of freely available online data via NASA , NOAA and enthusiast sites like Solar Ham and Space Weather plus many more. These sites are excellent for data, forecasts/predictions based on measurement systems and computer modelling. They are good, even excellent resources but not infallible, since the human factor always has to be factored in in terms of error, bias etc. An extension of this mainstream realm of information is the network of often highly experienced enthusiasts, analysts even hobbyists, who put their own spin on the observations they make, often using th