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Solar flares in October 1976
C-class5
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC0.21976-10-19
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1975 | 3 | 0 | 0 | C0.0 |
| October 1976 | 5 | 0 | 0 | C0.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-10-19 | 17:01 | 17:10 | 35 | C0.2 | S28W42 | 752 |
| 1976-10-19 | 17:41 | 17:45 | 11 | C0.0 | S29W42 | 752 |
| 1976-10-22 | 19:02 | 19:07 | 61 | C0.0 | N29E12 | 754 |
| 1976-10-27 | 10:58 | 11:15 | 24 | C0.0 | N27W49 | 754 |
| 1976-10-29 | 19:08 | 19:13 | 21 | C0.0 | N28W85 | 754 |
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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5 flares of class C or larger in October 1976; by M/X count it ranks 455 of 565 months.