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The main purpose of this study is the determination of solar minimum date of the new sunspot cycle No 24. It is provided by using of four types of mean daily data values for the period Jan 01. 2006 - Dec 31. 2009: (1) the solar radioindex F10.7; (2) the International sunspot number Ri; (3) the total solar irradiance index (TSI), and (4) the daily number of X-ray flares of classes from "B" to "X" from the soft X-ray GOES satellite channel (0.1 - 0.8 nm). It is found that the mean starting moment of the upward solar activity tendency (the mean solar minimum) is Nov. 06th, 2008. So, the solar cycle No 23 length is estimated to ~12.6 years. A conclusion for a relatively weak general magnitude of solar cycle No 24 is made. By using of relationship based on the "Waldmeier's rule" a near maximal mean yearly sunspot number value of 72 \pm 27 has been determined., Comment: 5 pages + 1 figure + 2 tables

The subject of this paper is the existence and stability of solar cycles with duration in the range of 20-250 years. Five type of data series are used: 1) The Zurich series (1749-2009), the mean annual International sunspot number Ri; 2) The Group sunspot number series Rh (1610-1995); 3) The simulated extended sunspot Rsi number from Extended time series of Solar Activity Indices (ESAI) (1090- 2002); 4) The simulated extended geomagnetic aa-index from ESAI (1099-2002); 5) The Meudon filament series (1919-1991) (it is used only particularly). Data series are smoothed over 11 years and supercenturial trends are removed. Two principally independent methods of time series analysis are used: the T-R periodogram analysis (both in the standard and "scanning window" regimes) and the wavelet-analysis. The obtained results are very similar. It is found that in all series a strong cycle with mean duration of 55-60 years exists. It is very well expressed in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It is less pronounced during the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. On the other hand a strong and stable quasi 110-120 years and ~200-year cycles are obtained in most of these series. However the 200-yr cycle is not detectable in the Zurich series. There is a strong mean oscillation of ~ 95 years, which is absent in the other data sets. The analysis of the ESAI (AD 1090-2002) proved that the quasi century cycle has a relatively stable doublet (~80 and ~120 years) or triplet (~55-60, 80 and 120 years) structure during the last ~900 years. Most probably the different type of oscillations in the sub-century and century period range corresponds to cycles of different classes of active regions. The solar-terrestrial relationships aspects of these results are briefly discussed., Comment: 25 pages +17 figures + 1 table

On the base of the most qualitative GOES satellites data for the period AD 1980-2009 and multiple regression model the "synthetic" series of the monthly numbers of soft X-ray flares (separately for the classes C, M, X and total numbers) were built for the epoch AD 1968-2009. The earlier parts of the series before AD 1980 were derived on the base of the mentioned model . The monthly numbers of radio bursts at four frequencies (29-33, 609, 8800 and 15400 MHz) and the radio flux at 2800 MHz (F10.7) are used as factors. The relationships are very strong (correlation coefficients R are from 0.79 to 0.93 and Snedekor-Fisher's F parameter is in the range of 2.5-7). The earlier GOES X-ray data (AD 1975-1979) and the older SOLRAD satellite data (AD 1968-1974) are not enough certain, which suggests a probable reduction effect because of the low instrumental sensitivity. It has also been found that the relatively weak sunspot Zurich cycle No 20 is essentially richer of flares of the strongest class X than the next three cycles No 21-23., Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables + Appendix A,B and C