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Solar flares in November 1979
C-class58
M-class59
X-class2
LargestX0.11979-11-08
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1978 | 55 | 5 | 0 | M0.2 |
| November 1979 | 58 | 59 | 2 | X0.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-11-08 | 11:24 | 11:25 | 21 | X0.1 | S13E07 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-10 | 06:42 | 06:45 | 14 | X0.1 | S15W13 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-09 | 03:02 | 03:06 | 18 | M0.9 | S12W02 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-06 | 14:44 | 14:51 | 47 | M0.6 | S14E34 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-09 | 06:00 | 06:02 | 26 | M0.6 | S15W03 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-05 | 23:47 | 23:47 | 9 | M0.5 | S15E43 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-08 | 01:14 | 01:16 | 32 | M0.5 | N30E59 | 2110 |
| 1979-11-08 | 23:28 | 23:32 | 86 | M0.5 | S15E45 | 2106 |
| 1979-11-05 | 21:17 | 21:48 | 142 | M0.4 | S12E48 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-12 | 01:18 | 01:28 | 14 | M0.4 | S16W28 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-15 | 20:21 | 20:30 | 41 | M0.4 | N12W18 | 2112 |
| 1979-11-05 | 22:35 | 23:00 | 45 | M0.3 | S13E50 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-06 | 22:40 | 23:07 | 50 | M0.3 | S14E33 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-07 | 19:39 | 20:36 | 117 | M0.3 | S13E20 | 2099 |
| 1979-11-08 | 02:07 | 02:08 | 13 | M0.3 | S13E16 | 2099 |
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 November 1979; by M/X count it ranks 23 of 565 months.