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Solar flares in September 1986
C-class1
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC2.61986-09-08
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1985 | 3 | 0 | 0 | C4.3 |
| September 1986 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C2.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-09-08 | 16:43 | 16:44 | 12 | C2.6 | N30E20 | 4745 |
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 September 1986; by M/X count it ranks 472 of 565 months.