Whats the record for the most sunspots on the sun at once?
MJCZ ANSWER: When scientists make a count of sunspots each day, they are only counting the ones on the side of the Sun facing us at the time. They have methods and formulas for counting sunspots to come up with a number. By an official count, the number of sunpots seen at a given moment can be as high as 100 to 200 sunspots. Numbers like this usually happen round “solar maximum,” the peak of solar magnetic activity that occurs every 11 years. At other times, the counts can be much lower. As for the “record” number of sunspots, that count was made in 1957 for an annually averaged number of 201 sunspots. Mr.
