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- A: A small single unipolar sunspot or very small group of spots without penumbra.
- B: Bipolar sunspot group with no penumbra.
- C: An elongated bipolar sunspot group. One sunspot must have penumbra.
- D: An elongated bipolar sunspot group with penumbra on both ends of the group.
- E: An elongated bipolar sunspot group with penumbra on both ends. Longitudinal extent of penumbra exceeds 10 deg. but not 15 deg.
- F: An elongated bipolar sunspot group with penumbra on both ends. Longitudinal extent of penumbra exceeds 15 deg.
- H: A unipolar sunspot group with penumbra.