MM#009 Default Target

Max Millennium Chief Observer mmchiefobserver at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 16:44:21 MDT 2022


Dear Collaborators,

Solar activity is at a low level. The target region has now rotated onto
the visible disk and displays leading and trailing sunspots with mature
penumbrae on each. Rather than being independently numbered, these large
sunspots have been grouped together under the designation of NOAA 12975
along with the smaller sunspots that rotated on disk ahead of them. NOAA
12975 has been the source of eight C-class flares since the last message,
including the largest flare of the period (a C8.1 on 24-Mar-2022 at 01:42
UT), but on inspection all of these originate from the trailing, larger
pair of sunspots. The target region focuses on these more Eastern spots
in NOAA 12975. Further C-class activity is expected in the next 24 hours.

The target position within NOAA 12975 on 24-Mar-2022 at 22:30 UT is:

N13E61 , ( -822", 270" )

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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