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Solar flares in October 1979
C-class121
M-class32
X-class1
LargestX0.11979-10-19
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1978 | 82 | 13 | 0 | M0.7 |
| October 1979 | 121 | 32 | 1 | X0.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-10-19 | 11:54 | 11:57 | 4 | X0.1 | N28E12 | 2058 |
| 1979-10-05 | 11:37 | 12:09 | 42 | M0.9 | N17E60 | 2032 |
| 1979-10-04 | 15:48 | 16:04 | 53 | M0.7 | N17E77 | 2032 |
| 1979-10-01 | 09:24 | 09:27 | 23 | M0.3 | N16W59 | 2006 |
| 1979-10-17 | 06:52 | 06:58 | 46 | M0.3 | N28E45 | 2058 |
| 1979-10-02 | 09:37 | 09:39 | 10 | M0.2 | N13E25 | 2027 |
| 1979-10-03 | 08:34 | 08:37 | 16 | M0.2 | S23W40 | 2019 |
| 1979-10-04 | 14:23 | 14:26 | 15 | M0.2 | N20E66 | 2032 |
| 1979-10-06 | 03:32 | 03:36 | 13 | M0.2 | N28E43 | 2030 |
| 1979-10-07 | 14:05 | 14:14 | 146 | M0.2 | N15E33 | 2032 |
| 1979-10-20 | 05:52 | 05:57 | 19 | M0.2 | N28E07 | 2058 |
| 1979-10-21 | 12:16 | 12:19 | 49 | M0.2 | N28W72 | 2045 |
| 1979-10-22 | 15:41 | 15:43 | 42 | M0.2 | N26W26 | 2058 |
| 1979-10-01 | 05:55 | 05:58 | 7 | M0.1 | S24W13 | 2019 |
| 1979-10-01 | 17:57 | 18:06 | 21 | M0.1 | N13E62 | 2025 |
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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154 flares of class C or larger in October 1979; by M/X count it ranks 98 of 565 months.