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Solar flares from active region 1556
C20
M6
X0
LargestM0.41979-02-12
Span9 days
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All flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-02-06 | 20:59 | 21:01 | 31 | C0.4 | N14E31 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-08 | 06:44 | 07:13 | 46 | M0.1 | N17E20 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-08 | 14:13 | 14:14 | 21 | C0.4 | N11E24 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-09 | 07:30 | 07:57 | 57 | C0.3 | N15W04 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-09 | 12:34 | 12:56 | 40 | C0.2 | N13W08 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-09 | 13:39 | 13:44 | 48 | C0.4 | N15W07 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-09 | 16:19 | 16:19 | 21 | C0.2 | N14W10 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-09 | 19:28 | 19:32 | 12 | C0.2 | N13W09 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-09 | 20:16 | 20:22 | 8 | C0.2 | N13W10 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-09 | 20:56 | – | 22 | C0.2 | N14W09 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-09 | 23:23 | 23:23 | 11 | C0.2 | N14W14 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-10 | 00:24 | – | 3 | C0.2 | N15W15 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-10 | 03:20 | – | 15 | C0.3 | N16W16 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-10 | 04:30 | 04:38 | 25 | C0.4 | N14W17 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-10 | 12:41 | 12:49 | 49 | C0.8 | N13W19 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-10 | 14:30 | 14:32 | 5 | C0.3 | N13W20 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-10 | 16:07 | 16:09 | 41 | C0.2 | N13W21 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-10 | 16:26 | 16:58 | 53 | C0.4 | N13W24 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-10 | 17:58 | 17:59 | 7 | C0.5 | N13W22 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-11 | 08:13 | 08:14 | 22 | C0.5 | N14W31 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-11 | 08:37 | 08:57 | 26 | C0.3 | N15W24 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-11 | 12:25 | 12:33 | 84 | M0.3 | N13W32 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-12 | 00:05 | 00:17 | 65 | M0.4 | N15W37 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-12 | 05:48 | 05:55 | 12 | M0.1 | N15W39 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-13 | 18:49 | 18:49 | 14 | M0.1 | N14W59 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-14 | 15:48 | 16:01 | 31 | M0.3 | N18W80 | 1556 |
All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.
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NOAA active region 1556 produced 26 C+ flares between 1979-02-06 and 1979-02-14.