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Solar flares in August 1976
C-class4
M-class2
X-class0
LargestM0.31976-08-22
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-08-22 | 10:21 | 11:58 | 97 | M0.3 | S06W90 | 729 |
| 1976-08-18 | 18:45 | 18:51 | 11 | M0.2 | S12E79 | 730 |
| 1976-08-07 | 02:00 | 02:00 | 3 | C0.3 | N13E08 | 724 |
| 1976-08-06 | 04:33 | 04:36 | 15 | C0.2 | N17E19 | 724 |
| 1976-08-06 | 11:35 | 11:40 | 30 | C0.0 | N17E30 | 724 |
| 1976-08-19 | 00:26 | 00:27 | 8 | C0.0 | S11E75 | 730 |
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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6 flares of class C or larger in August 1976; by M/X count it ranks 374 of 565 months.