EXPLANATIONS Daily drawing of sunspot groups were made at the Cooke refractor (15 cm/223 cm) on a 24,5 cm diameter projected image of the Sun. USSPS 31405 JJHHH aaabc ddeee QXXYY fghii JJ = Catania date of observation HHH = hours and tenths of hours (U.T.) aaa = number Wolf b = seeing quality c = solar disk (2) dd = serial number of sunspot group eee = area of sunspot group in tens of millionths of the solar hemisphere Q = quadrant (heliographic coordinate) in which geometric center of sunspot group is located 1 = NE 3 = SW 2 = SE 4 = NW XX = distance to central meridian in degrees YY = heliographic latitude in degrees f = type of penumbra g = relative importance of leading spot and density h = Zurich sunspot class ii = number of spot in group SOLAR GROUP - CATANIA ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY Enrico Catinoto (observer and data reduction) Santo Sciuto (observer and data reduction) Supervision by Daniele Spadaro