Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1980
C2054
M385
X21
LargestX9.01980-11-06
M/X flares by month
- January 1980
- February 1980
- March 1980
- April 1980
- May 1980
- June 1980
- July 1980
- August 1980
- September 1980
- October 1980
- November 1980
- December 1980
Nearby years (M + X)
2
15
41
195
309
406
520
596
112
121
16
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-11-06 | 03:40 | 03:48 | 108 | X9.0 | S12E74 | 2779 |
| 1980-11-05 | 13:41 | 13:55 | 77 | X4.4 | – | 2779 |
| 1980-10-25 | 09:42 | 09:50 | 28 | X3.9 | N19W59 | 2751 |
| 1980-10-14 | 05:42 | 06:13 | 112 | X3.3 | S09W07 | 2725 |
| 1980-11-08 | 13:33 | 13:37 | 125 | X3.3 | N08W28 | 2776 |
| 1980-05-01 | 18:51 | 19:15 | 50 | X3.0 | S22E60 | 2418 |
| 1980-11-07 | 01:56 | 02:06 | 79 | X2.7 | N07W11 | 2776 |
| 1980-06-21 | 01:17 | 01:25 | 43 | X2.6 | N20W90 | 2502 |
| 1980-07-01 | 16:22 | 16:29 | 49 | X2.5 | S12W38 | 2544 |
| 1980-11-12 | 04:46 | 04:50 | 6 | X2.5 | N10W72 | 2776 |
| 1980-06-04 | 22:57 | 23:01 | 17 | X2.2 | S14W69 | 2478 |
| 1980-11-15 | 15:40 | 15:50 | 111 | X1.9 | S12W83 | 2779 |
| 1980-05-21 | 20:51 | 21:00 | 35 | X1.4 | S14W15 | 2456 |
| 1980-11-06 | 14:44 | 15:26 | 136 | X1.2 | – | 2779 |
| 1980-05-28 | 19:24 | 19:51 | 89 | X1.1 | S18W33 | 2470 |
| 1980-07-14 | 08:22 | 08:25 | 20 | X1.1 | S13E43 | 2562 |
| 1980-07-11 | 18:51 | 18:59 | 37 | X1.0 | S10E72 | 2562 |
| 1980-11-11 | 09:06 | 09:18 | 52 | M9.6 | N10W63 | 2776 |
| 1980-11-13 | 00:31 | 00:37 | 53 | M9.4 | S11W21 | 2779 |
| 1980-11-19 | 04:33 | 04:57 | 102 | M9.1 | – | 2779 |
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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2,460 flares of class C+ in 1980: 385 M-class and 21 X-class.