We have analyzed 221 data of daily sunspot observations made during the period of January 1 to December 30 in 1999 and presented the daily relative sunspot numbers. During the year of 1999, our annual average of relative sunspot numbers is found to be 130.1. This number is obtained from the averaged daily number of 6.7 spot groups, in which there are about 45.9 distinct spots observed. According to the appearance of 384 spot groups, our analysis shows that the mean life time of spot group is about 5 day and 4.6 hours.

• 심경진(한국천문연구원) | SIM KYUNG JIN (Korea Astronomy Observatory)