Cloudy weather during January has hampered astronomical observations, including those of the sun, but during the month it seems to have had an unusually large number of spots. A picture, taken on Jan. 31 by I.M. Levitt, with the 40-foot focus solar camera of the Cook Observatory, shows more spots than have been seen in more than 7 years.
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