From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gustav Spörer
Gustav Spörer
longed period of low sunspot activity from 1645 to 1715.
This period is known as the Maunder Minimum.
Spörer was a contemporary of Richard Christopher
Carrington, an English astronomer. Carrington is gener-
ally credited with discovering Spörer’s law, which gov-
erns the variation of sunspot latitudes during the course
of a solar cycle. Spörer added to Carrington’s observa-
tions of sunspot drift and is sometimes credited with the
discovery.
The Spörer minimum was a period of low sunspot ac-
tivity from roughly 1420 to 1570.
External links
• http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/
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Name Sporer, Gustav
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Portrait of Gustav Spörer. Date of birth 23 October 1822
Place of birth
Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer (23 October 1822 –
7 July 1895) was a German astronomer. Date of death 7 July 1895
He is noted for his studies of sunspots and sunspot cy- Place of death
cles. In this regard he is often mentioned together with
Edward Maunder. Spörer was the first to note a pro-
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• 1895 deaths
• 19th-century astronomers
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