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M6.0 solar flare on 2011-08-03

ClassM6.0NOAA report

Peak13:482011-08-03 UTC

Duration53 min

Peak flux6.0e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank in year	16 / 1319
Other M/X flares that day	2
M/X flares that month	8
Solar cycle	Cycle 24
Active region	AR 11261 (41 flares)

Compared with the strongest flares of 2011

X6.9 08-09X6.9

X2.2 02-15X2.2

X2.1 09-06X2.1

X1.9 09-24X1.9

X1.9 11-03X1.9

X1.8 09-07X1.8

X1.5 03-09X1.5

X1.4 09-22X1.4

M9.3 07-30M9.3

M9.3 08-04M9.3

M7.4 09-25M7.4

M7.1 09-24M7.1

Other M/X flares that day

Date	Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
	03:08	03:37	43	M1.1	–	11261
	04:29	04:32	6	M1.7	–	11263

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 M6.0 flare that began 2011-08-03 13:17 UTC; No. 16 of 1,319 C-class-or-larger flares in 2011.