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M6.5 solar flare on 1988-06-29

ClassM6.5NOAA report

Peak07:381988-06-29 UTC

Duration73 min

Peak flux6.5e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank in year	23 / 1845
Other M/X flares that day	2
M/X flares that month	27
Solar cycle	Cycle 22
Position on disk	S19E24
Active region	AR 5060 (55 flares)

Compared with the strongest flares of 1988

X5.6 06-24X5.6

X4.7 12-16X4.7

X3.2 10-03X3.2

X2.5 10-12X2.5

X2.4 06-24X2.4

X1.6 06-23X1.6

X1.4 01-02X1.4

X1.4 12-30X1.4

X1.3 06-24X1.3

X1.2 04-14X1.2

X1.1 10-03X1.1

X1.1 12-15X1.1

Other M/X flares that day

Date	Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
	00:28	00:50	58	M2.6	S21E41	5060
	20:15	20:17	60	M4.1	S19E27	5060

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 M6.5 flare that began 1988-06-29 07:34 UTC; No. 23 of 1,845 C-class-or-larger flares in 1988.