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Solar flares in January 1979
C-class121
M-class23
X-class1
LargestX0.11979-01-13
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1978 | 47 | 5 | 1 | X0.1 |
| January 1979 | 121 | 23 | 1 | X0.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-01-13 | 19:31 | 19:33 | 31 | X0.1 | N15W14 | 1502 |
| 1979-01-21 | 13:12 | 13:14 | 20 | M0.5 | S22W85 | 1507 |
| 1979-01-08 | 02:29 | 02:34 | 7 | M0.3 | N17E47 | 1496 |
| 1979-01-11 | 07:42 | 07:46 | 18 | M0.3 | S17W22 | 1492 |
| 1979-01-15 | 07:35 | – | 12 | M0.3 | N15W33 | 1502 |
| 1979-01-24 | 12:49 | 12:49 | 26 | M0.3 | N12W01 | 1525 |
| 1979-01-28 | 13:04 | 13:09 | 61 | M0.3 | N12W55 | 1525 |
| 1979-01-12 | 00:25 | 00:27 | 20 | M0.2 | S18W32 | 1492 |
| 1979-01-14 | 12:55 | 12:58 | 28 | M0.2 | S18W67 | 1492 |
| 1979-01-15 | 13:27 | 13:40 | 15 | M0.2 | S17W79 | 1492 |
| 1979-01-16 | 07:38 | 07:41 | 17 | M0.2 | N15W47 | 1502 |
| 1979-01-03 | 21:49 | 21:52 | 66 | M0.1 | S12W01 | 1487 |
| 1979-01-05 | 18:26 | 18:51 | 95 | M0.1 | S35W18 | 1484 |
| 1979-01-11 | 12:19 | 12:39 | 75 | M0.1 | S18W28 | 1492 |
| 1979-01-13 | 07:11 | 07:11 | 4 | M0.1 | N13W02 | 1502 |
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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145 flares of class C or larger in January 1979; by M/X count it ranks 134 of 565 months.