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Solar flares in February 1979
C-class82
M-class41
X-class4
LargestX0.21979-02-16
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1978 | 86 | 24 | 0 | M0.7 |
| February 1979 | 82 | 41 | 4 | X0.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-02-16 | 01:45 | 02:00 | 63 | X0.2 | N15E48 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-18 | 16:36 | 16:51 | 93 | X0.2 | N17W13 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-18 | 06:49 | 06:49 | 7 | X0.1 | N16E13 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-21 | 14:18 | 14:21 | 38 | X0.1 | N17W28 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-22 | 05:05 | 05:10 | 22 | M0.9 | N17W36 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-19 | 17:55 | 18:14 | 59 | M0.8 | N15E02 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-20 | 21:56 | 22:10 | 65 | M0.8 | N18W47 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-16 | 21:38 | 21:43 | 31 | M0.5 | N19E13 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-22 | 18:57 | 18:59 | 26 | M0.5 | N15W43 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-12 | 00:05 | 00:17 | 65 | M0.4 | N15W37 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-17 | 02:24 | 02:46 | 76 | M0.4 | N18E09 | 1568 |
| 1979-02-18 | 19:47 | 19:56 | 57 | M0.4 | N16E14 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-21 | 19:39 | 19:53 | 109 | M0.4 | N15W31 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-11 | 12:25 | 12:33 | 84 | M0.3 | N13W32 | 1556 |
| 1979-02-14 | 15:48 | 16:01 | 31 | M0.3 | N18W80 | 1556 |
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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127 flares of class C or larger in February 1979; by M/X count it ranks 52 of 565 months.