MM#018 Great Flare Watch

Max Millennium Chief Observer mmchiefobserver at gmail.com
Mon May 13 12:41:57 MDT 2013


Dear RHESSI Collaborators,

Solar activity is at a high level. The X-class flare that occurred earlier
today is still in its decay phase, and no further events have yet occurred.
Since the target region has not fully rotated onto the disk, neither its
magnetic nor sunspot configurations can be assessed. However, given that
two X-class flares have been released by the new region in succession, ~14
hours apart (13-May-2013 at 02:16:00 and 16:05:00) and that the second
flare was of a higher magnitude than the first (X1.7 followed by X2.8) the
current observing plan is being upgraded to the Max Millennium coordinated
observing plan #018 (Region Likely To Produce Great Flares).

The position of the new region on 13-May-2013 at 18:40 UT is:

N11E87, ( -931", 182" )

See http://www.SolarMonitor.org for images and
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/max_millennium/ops/observing.shtml
for a description of the current Max Millennium Observing Plan.

Regards,

Paul A. Higgins (Trinity College Dublin / LMSAL)
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