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About Gustav Spörer
- Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer (23 October 1822 – 7 July 1895) was a German astronomer. He is noted for his studies of sunspots and sunspot cycles.
- In this regard he is often mentioned together with Edward Maunder.
- Spörer was the first to note a prolonged 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 generally credited with discovering Spörer's law, which governs the variation of sunspot latitudes during the course of a solar cycle.
- Spörer added to Carrington's observations of sunspot drift and is sometimes credited with the discovery. The Spörer minimum was a period of low sunspot activity from roughly 1420 to 1570.
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