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Solar flares in February 1997
C-class6
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC4.81997-02-20
Sunspot number11.3NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-02-20 | 11:37 | 11:44 | 9 | C4.8 | – | – |
| 1997-02-19 | 22:17 | 22:23 | 9 | C3.9 | N08W79 | – |
| 1997-02-20 | 07:58 | 08:03 | 7 | C3.4 | – | – |
| 1997-02-02 | 06:25 | 06:34 | 15 | C2.6 | S23E36 | – |
| 1997-02-04 | 11:11 | 11:17 | 8 | C1.8 | S21E01 | – |
| 1997-02-20 | 01:34 | 01:39 | 9 | C1.0 | – | – |
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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6 flares of class C or larger in February 1997; by M/X count it ranks 497 of 565 months.