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Solar flares in July 1979
C-class105
M-class9
X-class0
LargestM0.31979-07-04
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1978 | 92 | 34 | 4 | X1.5 |
| July 1979 | 105 | 9 | 0 | M0.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-07-04 | 11:34 | 11:37 | 6 | M0.3 | S28E79 | 1855 |
| 1979-07-04 | 08:30 | 08:50 | 52 | M0.2 | N07E65 | 1849 |
| 1979-07-08 | 20:12 | 20:30 | 64 | M0.2 | N29E38 | 1860 |
| 1979-07-04 | 19:07 | 19:23 | 112 | M0.1 | N10E33 | 1849 |
| 1979-07-20 | 19:31 | 19:47 | 33 | M0.1 | N26W53 | 1878 |
| 1979-07-21 | 13:21 | 13:54 | 185 | M0.1 | N14W48 | 1880 |
| 1979-07-24 | 07:59 | 08:01 | 27 | M0.1 | N31W30 | 1877 |
| 1979-07-27 | 12:00 | – | 270 | M0.1 | N15E35 | 1890 |
| 1979-07-28 | 17:07 | 17:10 | 38 | M0.1 | S13W17 | 1888 |
| 1979-07-25 | 00:40 | 01:28 | 52 | C0.9 | N31W41 | 1877 |
| 1979-07-25 | 02:49 | 02:56 | 37 | C0.8 | N16E72 | 1890 |
| 1979-07-15 | 17:44 | 17:45 | 9 | C0.7 | N17W74 | 1859 |
| 1979-07-21 | 02:28 | 02:28 | 0 | C0.7 | N14W43 | 1880 |
| 1979-07-22 | 17:39 | 17:42 | 16 | C0.6 | N12W65 | 1880 |
| 1979-07-23 | 16:45 | 16:50 | 30 | C0.6 | S05W07 | 1882 |
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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114 flares of class C or larger in July 1979; by M/X count it ranks 248 of 565 months.