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Solar flares in August 1979
C-class100
M-class15
X-class4
LargestX0.61979-08-18
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1978 | 62 | 2 | 0 | M0.2 |
| August 1979 | 100 | 15 | 4 | X0.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-08-18 | 14:03 | 14:16 | 42 | X0.6 | N10E90 | 1943 |
| 1979-08-20 | 09:06 | 09:23 | 99 | X0.5 | N05E76 | 1943 |
| 1979-08-26 | 16:17 | 17:02 | 346 | X0.2 | N05W09 | 1943 |
| 1979-08-18 | 13:46 | 13:50 | 14 | X0.1 | S19E87 | – |
| 1979-08-14 | 12:43 | 15:46 | 300 | M0.3 | S22E73 | 1929 |
| 1979-08-15 | 15:28 | 15:31 | 22 | M0.3 | S23E41 | 1926 |
| 1979-08-13 | 10:06 | 11:00 | 60 | M0.2 | S24E90 | 1929 |
| 1979-08-21 | 01:50 | 02:10 | 25 | M0.2 | N07E68 | 1943 |
| 1979-08-23 | 12:44 | 12:50 | 125 | M0.2 | N07E29 | 1943 |
| 1979-08-01 | 14:06 | 14:21 | 64 | M0.1 | S13E00 | 1895 |
| 1979-08-07 | 19:48 | – | 69 | M0.1 | N15E85 | 1915 |
| 1979-08-10 | 09:19 | 09:21 | 51 | M0.1 | N12E47 | 1915 |
| 1979-08-14 | 15:42 | 15:48 | 9 | M0.1 | S17W42 | 1910 |
| 1979-08-14 | 16:09 | 16:14 | 14 | M0.1 | S21E51 | 1926 |
| 1979-08-15 | 00:01 | – | 4 | M0.1 | S25E70 | 1929 |
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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119 flares of class C or larger in August 1979; by M/X count it ranks 164 of 565 months.