Som Wormley wrote:

The source of this space weather is sunspot 484--one of the trio of big
sunspots that caused intense solar storms last month.

The NOAA numbers do not specifically refer to a "sunspot" but to an active
region. In any event, NOAA 10484 has been renumbered as 10501, since that
appears to happen on each solar rotation.
--
David W. Knisely
Prairie Astronomy Club: http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org
Hyde Memorial Observatory: http://www.hydeobservatory.info/

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