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Solar flares in April 1979
C-class113
M-class12
X-class1
LargestX0.11979-04-27
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1978 | 108 | 15 | 5 | X0.5 |
| April 1979 | 113 | 12 | 1 | X0.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-04-27 | 07:05 | 07:13 | 26 | X0.1 | N20E16 | 1705 |
| 1979-04-03 | 01:09 | 03:08 | 140 | M0.4 | S26W14 | 1661 |
| 1979-04-03 | 04:17 | 04:18 | 23 | M0.4 | S23W05 | 1661 |
| 1979-04-05 | 18:26 | 18:28 | 22 | M0.4 | N20E88 | 1681 |
| 1979-04-27 | 16:34 | 16:40 | 51 | M0.3 | N19E10 | 1705 |
| 1979-04-06 | 09:00 | 09:09 | 43 | M0.2 | N22E90 | 1681 |
| 1979-04-09 | 12:18 | 12:26 | 30 | M0.2 | N05E85 | 1684 |
| 1979-04-14 | 14:41 | 14:46 | 11 | M0.2 | N01E14 | 1684 |
| 1979-04-03 | 11:58 | 12:08 | 37 | M0.1 | S24W08 | 1661 |
| 1979-04-11 | 13:29 | 13:40 | 26 | M0.1 | N03E51 | 1684 |
| 1979-04-14 | 01:34 | 01:34 | 22 | M0.1 | N27E37 | 1689 |
| 1979-04-25 | 21:09 | 21:53 | 77 | M0.1 | N18E38 | 1705 |
| 1979-04-27 | 05:37 | 05:51 | 60 | M0.1 | N14E84 | 1713 |
| 1979-04-11 | 21:41 | 21:47 | 33 | C0.9 | N05E71 | 1691 |
| 1979-04-29 | 16:03 | 16:13 | 21 | C0.9 | N17E43 | 1711 |
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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126 flares of class C or larger in April 1979; by M/X count it ranks 201 of 565 months.