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I only follow this marginally, but there have been 6 X-Class flares in the last 24 hours according to :http://www.maj.com/sun/ and NOAA.
Haven't seen that in the 6 months I've been generally watching and thought some of you may find it interesting.
-- Jon Johnson (narnia4@usa.net), September 13, 1999
yes- thanx- it is interesting.
-- farmer (hillsidefarm@drbs.net), September 13, 1999.
Jon;I just checked the NOAA site and I do not see any report of X-Class events. Can you give a link to the site where you saw this report?
http://sec.noaa.gov/today.html
OLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE AT LOW TO MODERATE LEVELS. REGION 8699 MAY PRODUCE M-CLASS FLARES, PARTICULARLY IF ITS PRESENT RATE OF GROWTH CONTINUES. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A MAJOR FLARE FROM THIS REGION.
-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), September 13, 1999.
Also from:http://www.dxlc.com/solar/
Flares and CMEs
A total of 8 C flares (all in the C1-C2 range) were recorded on September 12, 4 were optically unaccounted while region 8699 was the source of the remaining 4 C flares.
The background x-ray flux is at the class B4 level.
-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), September 13, 1999.
Jon;There is no supporting data for your claim that there have been 6-X class flares in the last 24 hours.
Can you provide supporting data?
-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), September 13, 1999.
Maybe the X is a typo and he meant C class flares.
-- ~~~ (~~~@~~~.com), September 13, 1999.
For a large list of sun-information and solar flares,go tohttp:/www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/ervin1.htm
List at bottom of page.
-- maggie (aaa@aaa.com), September 13, 1999.
I also checked the DX Listeners site, which monitors solar activity. It seems that solar activity is not greatly above what is to be expected...and no M or X class flares.
-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 13, 1999.