Solar cycle 13

{{Infobox Solar cycles

|cycle_num=13

|image=PSM V60 D257 Solar corona of 1893 eclipse.png

|caption=The solar corona during an eclipse in solar cycle 13 (1893).

|start_date=March 1890

|end_date=January 1902

|duration=11.8

|max_count=146.5

|max_count_date=January 1894

|min_count=8.3

|spotless_count=934

|prev_name=Solar cycle 12

|next_name=Solar cycle 14

|prev_dates=1878–1890

|next_dates=1902–1913

}}

File:PSM V60 D255 Solar prominences of the may 28 1900 eclipse.png

Solar cycle 13 was the thirteenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began.{{citation|doi=10.1023/A:1014296529097|year=2002|last1=Kane|first1=R.P.|title=Some Implications Using the Group Sunspot Number Reconstruction|journal=Solar Physics|volume=205|issue=2|pages=383–401|bibcode=2002SoPh..205..383K|s2cid=118144552}}{{cite web | title=The Sun: Did You Say the Sun Has Spots? | url=http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Sun/Sunspots.html | publisher=Space Today Online | accessdate=12 August 2010}} The solar cycle lasted 11.8 years, beginning in March 1890 and ending in January 1902. The maximum smoothed sunspot number observed during the solar cycle was 146.5 (January 1894), and the starting minimum was 8.3.SIDC Monthly Smoothed Sunspot Number. "[http://sidc.oma.be/sunspot-data/]" During the minimum transit from solar cycle 13 to 14, there were a total of 934 days with no sunspots.Spotless Days. "[http://spaceweather.com/glossary/spotlessdays.htm?PHPSESSID=dli444kmrjgre0rjq6l86fv144]"{{cite web |url=https://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11jul_solarcycleupdate.htm|title=What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)|date=11 July 2008|author=Dr. Tony Phillips|publisher=NASA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080714032353/https://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11jul_solarcycleupdate.htm|archive-date=14 July 2008}}Solaemon's Spotless Days Page. "[http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Spotless/Spotless.html]"

There were a number of intense solar proton events during solar cycle 13,{{cite conference |last1=Peristykh |first1=A. N. |last2=Damon|first2=P. E. |date=17–25 August 1999 |title=Multiple Evidence of Intense Solar Proton Events During Solar Cycle 13 |journal=26th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Icrc26) |volume=6 |url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1999icrc....6..264p |conference=Proceedings of the 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference |pages=264–267 |bibcode=1999ICRC....6..264P }} as well as geomagnetic storms such as in September 1898 which affected telegraph lines.{{Cite web|url=http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html|title=Space Weather Newspaper Archives|first=Solar|last=Storms|date=28 July 2017|website=www.solarstorms.org}}