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Solar flares in September 1976
C-class9
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC0.41976-09-01
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1975 | 11 | 0 | 0 | C0.0 |
| September 1976 | 9 | 0 | 0 | C0.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-09-01 | 22:40 | 22:51 | 18 | C0.4 | N19W69 | 734 |
| 1976-09-03 | 06:15 | 06:27 | 21 | C0.3 | N18W84 | 734 |
| 1976-09-17 | 18:05 | 18:06 | 60 | C0.3 | N23E80 | 739 |
| 1976-09-06 | 01:44 | 01:47 | 8 | C0.2 | N18W28 | 733 |
| 1976-09-21 | 12:23 | 12:31 | 35 | C0.1 | S13W06 | 738 |
| 1976-09-03 | 11:22 | 11:26 | 14 | C0.0 | N16W88 | 734 |
| 1976-09-07 | 08:08 | 08:11 | 11 | C0.0 | N20W40 | 733 |
| 1976-09-18 | 14:56 | 15:03 | 34 | C0.0 | S10E31 | 738 |
| 1976-09-24 | 08:06 | 08:13 | 18 | C0.0 | N23W07 | 739 |
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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9 flares of class C or larger in September 1976; by M/X count it ranks 454 of 565 months.