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Solar flares from active region 1568
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M8
X1
LargestX0.21979-02-18
Span8 days
Flares by day
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| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-02-13 | 19:57 | 19:58 | 10 | M0.1 | N17E55 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-16 | 21:38 | 21:43 | 31 | M0.5 | N19E13 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-16 | 23:07 | 23:07 | 11 | M0.2 | N20E11 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-17 | 00:30 | 00:36 | 30 | M0.1 | N18E10 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-17 | 02:24 | 02:46 | 76 | M0.4 | N18E09 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-17 | 08:05 | 08:09 | 9 | C0.9 | N18E04 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-17 | 14:31 | 14:43 | 95 | C0.8 | N18E02 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-18 | 16:36 | 16:51 | 93 | X0.2 | N17W13 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-19 | 15:25 | 15:27 | 84 | M0.3 | N19W25 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-20 | 13:49 | 14:16 | 71 | M0.2 | N20W39 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-20 | 21:56 | 22:10 | 65 | M0.8 | N18W47 | 1568 |
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 1568 produced 11 C+ flares between 1979-02-13 and 1979-02-20.