Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1979
C1160
M284
X25
LargestX0.61979-08-18
M/X flares by month
- January 1979
- February 1979
- March 1979
- April 1979
- May 1979
- June 1979
- July 1979
- August 1979
- September 1979
- October 1979
- November 1979
- December 1979
Nearby years (M + X)
2
15
41
195
309
406
520
596
112
121
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-08-18 | 14:03 | 14:16 | 42 | X0.6 | N10E90 | 1943 |
| 1979-08-20 | 09:06 | 09:23 | 99 | X0.5 | N05E76 | 1943 |
| 1979-09-19 | 22:56 | 23:03 | 89 | X0.5 | N06E33 | 1994 |
| 1979-09-16 | 09:37 | 09:42 | 40 | X0.3 | N03E80 | 1994 |
| 1979-02-16 | 01:45 | 02:00 | 63 | X0.2 | N15E48 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-18 | 16:36 | 16:51 | 93 | X0.2 | N17W13 | 1568 |
| 1979-06-05 | 05:08 | 05:14 | 84 | X0.2 | N20E16 | 1781 |
| 1979-06-10 | 08:06 | 08:55 | 135 | X0.2 | N25W50 | 1781 |
| 1979-08-26 | 16:17 | 17:02 | 346 | X0.2 | N05W09 | 1943 |
| 1979-01-13 | 19:31 | 19:33 | 31 | X0.1 | N15W14 | 1502 |
| 1979-02-18 | 06:49 | 06:49 | 7 | X0.1 | N16E13 | 1574 |
| 1979-02-21 | 14:18 | 14:21 | 38 | X0.1 | N17W28 | 1574 |
| 1979-03-01 | 09:55 | 10:15 | 100 | X0.1 | S24E68 | 1599 |
| 1979-03-25 | 18:02 | 18:15 | 61 | X0.1 | N10W77 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-26 | 11:50 | 12:13 | 53 | X0.1 | N05W78 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-27 | 05:43 | 06:20 | 65 | X0.1 | N07W90 | 1638 |
| 1979-04-27 | 07:05 | 07:13 | 26 | X0.1 | N20E16 | 1705 |
| 1979-06-04 | 03:55 | 04:03 | 65 | X0.1 | N20E34 | 1781 |
| 1979-08-18 | 13:46 | 13:50 | 14 | X0.1 | S19E87 | – |
| 1979-09-22 | 01:51 | 02:38 | 54 | X0.1 | N06E04 | 1994 |
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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1,469 flares of class C+ in 1979: 284 M-class and 25 X-class.