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Solar flares in August 1985
C-class1
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC5.41985-08-08
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1984 | 9 | 1 | 0 | M1.1 |
| August 1985 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C5.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-08-08 | 07:44 | 07:47 | 16 | C5.4 | S11W69 | 4682 |
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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1 flares of class C or larger in August 1985; by M/X count it ranks 467 of 565 months.