de VK4AES Tue-03Feb09 00:19 UTC Sunspots Solar Update 02/02/2009 by Kevin VE3EN at 15:10 Since Sunspot 1002 appeared in Sept 2008, the sun never went more than 30 days between worthwhile Cycle 24 sunspots. The last noteworthy Cycle 24 sunspot appeared Jan 9 (Sunspot 1010) . To keep that trend going a sunspot will need to appear in the next 7 days. For now the sun remains blank and solar activity will remain very low.