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M7.6 solar flare on 2003-10-24

ClassM7.6NOAA report

Peak02:542003-10-24 UTC

Duration47 min

Peak flux7.6e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank in year	24 / 1496
Other M/X flares that day	3
M/X flares that month	44
Solar cycle	Cycle 23
Position on disk	S19E72
Active region	AR 10486 (43 flares)

Compared with the strongest flares of 2003

X28.0 11-04X28.0

X17.2 10-28X17.2

X10.0 10-29X10.0

X8.3 11-02X8.3

X5.4 10-23X5.4

X3.9 11-03X3.9

X3.6 05-28X3.6

X2.7 11-03X2.7

X1.7 06-09X1.7

X1.6 06-11X1.6

X1.5 03-17X1.5

X1.5 03-18X1.5

Other M/X flares that day

Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
05:04	05:10	12	M4.2	S24E74	10486
18:42	18:56	23	M1.3	–	10486
21:35	21:40	10	M1.0	N05W09	10484

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 M7.6 flare that began 2003-10-24 02:27 UTC; No. 24 of 1,496 C-class-or-larger flares in 2003.