Morning. It can be a confusing topic, and it took me a while to realise that the sunspot number is not the same as the number of sunspots 'http://www.solen.info/solar/ This is an interesting website with up to date info on sunspot numbers and how they arrive at the figures they do. This website also suggests Februrary 2012 as a 'possible' cycle 24 max based on a projection of the smoothed sunspot number (see monthly data table at bottom of page). It is of course too early to confirm this as the solar max since a sustained period of increased solar activity could easily see a spike in the smoothed sunspot number.