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X0.1 solar flare on 1979-10-19

ClassX0.1NOAA report

Peak11:571979-10-19 UTC

Duration4 min

Peak flux1.0e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank among X flares (1975 – Jun 2017)	485 / 491
Rank in year	21 / 1469
Other M/X flares that day	2
M/X flares that month	33
Solar cycle	Cycle 21
Position on disk	N28E12
Active region	AR 2058 (26 flares)

Compared with the strongest flares of 1979

X0.6 08-18M6.0

X0.5 08-20M5.0

X0.5 09-19M5.0

X0.3 09-16M3.0

X0.2 02-16M2.0

X0.2 02-18M2.0

X0.2 06-05M2.0

X0.2 06-10M2.0

X0.2 08-26M2.0

X0.1 01-13M1.0

X0.1 02-18M1.0

X0.1 02-21M1.0

Other M/X flares that day

Date	Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
	00:18	00:38	40	M0.1	N28E22	2058
	23:16	23:16	23	M0.1	N25E09	2058

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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A X0.1 flare that began 1979-10-19 11:54 UTC; No. 21 of 1,469 C-class-or-larger flares in 1979.