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Solar flares in December 1976
C-class14
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC0.41976-12-15
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1975 | 4 | 0 | 0 | C0.1 |
| December 1976 | 14 | 0 | 0 | C0.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-12-15 | 14:58 | 15:01 | 21 | C0.4 | N03W55 | 759 |
| 1976-12-09 | 02:01 | 02:03 | 18 | C0.2 | N04E33 | 759 |
| 1976-12-08 | 19:02 | 19:09 | 20 | C0.0 | N06E37 | 759 |
| 1976-12-08 | 19:39 | 19:41 | 11 | C0.0 | N25E07 | 760 |
| 1976-12-08 | 23:21 | 23:24 | 10 | C0.0 | N05E33 | 759 |
| 1976-12-09 | 07:51 | 07:52 | 40 | C0.0 | N02E29 | 759 |
| 1976-12-09 | 08:44 | 08:46 | 13 | C0.0 | N02E29 | 759 |
| 1976-12-09 | 10:15 | 10:21 | 30 | C0.0 | N03E39 | 759 |
| 1976-12-09 | 13:46 | 13:48 | 11 | C0.0 | N04E25 | 759 |
| 1976-12-09 | 16:51 | 16:56 | 15 | C0.0 | N05E22 | 759 |
| 1976-12-10 | 08:35 | 08:36 | 5 | C0.0 | N03E15 | 759 |
| 1976-12-14 | 19:17 | 19:22 | 21 | C0.0 | N04W46 | 759 |
| 1976-12-16 | 12:51 | 12:55 | 15 | C0.0 | S26W36 | 761 |
| 1976-12-16 | 15:55 | – | 20 | C0.0 | S27W32 | 761 |
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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14 flares of class C or larger in December 1976; by M/X count it ranks 457 of 565 months.