MM#003 Major Flare Watch

Max Millennium Chief Observer mmchiefobserver at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 12:42:35 MST 2022


Dear Collaborators,

Solar activity is at a low-to-moderate level. The target NOAA 12936
continued to evolve its interior spots since the last message, but
retained a classification as a beta/E-type sunspot group. The most
flare-productive region has been newly numbered NOAA 12940 in the
North West quadrant that produced several C-class events including
the largest flare of the period (a C8.6 on 1-Feb-2022 at 07:25 UT).
Whilst NOAA 12940 is expected to produce more C-class flares and it
has the potential for low M-class, NOAA 12936 remains the target of
the current Max Millennium coordinated observing plan #003 (Region
Likely To Produce A Major Flare) for another 24 hours. This is due
to the leading spots of NOAA 12938 (that appear to be showing minor
flux emergence) being relatively close to the opposite-polarity and
irregularly-shaped main trailing spot of NOAA 12936.

The position of NOAA 12936 on 1-Feb-2022 at 20:00 UT is:

N16W33 , ( 511", 351" )

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,

Shaun Bloomfield (Northumbria University)


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