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Solar flares in January 1978
C-class47
M-class5
X-class1
LargestX0.11978-01-08
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1977 | 9 | 1 | 0 | M0.2 |
| January 1978 | 47 | 5 | 1 | X0.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-01-08 | 07:10 | 07:13 | 39 | X0.1 | S12W85 | 967 |
| 1978-01-01 | 21:47 | 21:58 | 43 | M0.3 | S18E05 | 967 |
| 1978-01-07 | 06:37 | 06:37 | 2 | M0.3 | S15W64 | 967 |
| 1978-01-07 | 12:25 | 12:28 | 10 | M0.3 | S18W71 | 967 |
| 1978-01-08 | 02:19 | 02:46 | 64 | M0.3 | S19W78 | 967 |
| 1978-01-01 | 05:55 | 05:58 | 30 | M0.1 | S18E41 | 970 |
| 1978-01-03 | 10:17 | 10:24 | 25 | C0.9 | N19E07 | 970 |
| 1978-01-03 | 02:12 | 02:35 | 48 | C0.7 | N21W42 | 969 |
| 1978-01-07 | 19:18 | 19:35 | 79 | C0.7 | S18W75 | 967 |
| 1978-01-01 | 09:20 | 09:22 | 12 | C0.6 | S17E37 | 970 |
| 1978-01-07 | 03:07 | 03:10 | 28 | C0.5 | S21W61 | 967 |
| 1978-01-26 | 22:51 | 22:51 | 8 | C0.5 | N19W15 | 986 |
| 1978-01-26 | 23:12 | 23:13 | 68 | C0.5 | N19W14 | 986 |
| 1978-01-26 | 23:16 | 23:16 | 3 | C0.5 | S30E73 | 988 |
| 1978-01-30 | 01:39 | 01:40 | 40 | C0.5 | S29E34 | 988 |
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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53 flares of class C or larger in January 1978; by M/X count it ranks 292 of 565 months.