MM#009 Default Target

Max Millennium Chief Observer mmchiefobserver at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 17:05:20 MST 2022


Dear Collaborators,

Solar activity is at a very low level. Target NOAA 12924 displayed
an increase in magnetic complexity since yesterday's message and
was classified as a beta-gamma/E-type sunspot group. However, NOAA
12924 appears to have already decreased to a beta configuration.
This region has remained flare quiet while a C1.0 flare occurred
on 11-Jan-2022 at 08:18 UT from a location further East than NOAA
12927. The target instead changes to NOAA 12926 that began the UT
day classified as a spotless H-alpha plage region. 12926 now has a
small leading-polarity spot with a trailing-polarity pore and it
appears to be undergoing emergence of an additional bipole to its
North. A location close to NOAA 12926 was the source of 3 B-class
flares since the last message, the largest being a B7.1 flare on
11-Jan-2022 at 09:14 UT. More B-class flares are expected in the
following 24-hour period, with a chance for a low C-class flare if
NOAA 12926 continues emerging more flux.

The approximate position of NOAA 12926 on 11-Jan-2022 at 23:30 UT is:

N17W36 , ( 550", 341" )

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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