MM#003 Major Flare Watch

Max Millennium Chief Observer mmchiefobserver at gmail.com
Wed May 8 07:17:53 MDT 2024


Dear Collaborators,

Solar activity has reached a high level. Both NOAA 13663 and NOAA
13664 produced a number of significant magnitude flares, each
producing separate X1.0 flares at 01:48 UT today and 04:37 UT today,
respectively.  NOAA 13663 has shown a slight decay in area as it
undergoes its transit of the northwest limb. NOAA 13664 has further
grown to an area of 630 μh and has produced a greater number of
significant flares since the last message. The Major Flare Watch will
continue and the target region will now switch to NOAA 13664, however
attention should still be paid to NOAA 13663 for potential limb
flares. Additional M-class activity is expected, with a good chance
for further >M5 activity in the next 24 hours.

The position of NOAA 13664 on 08-May-2024 at 11:30 UT is:

S20W16, (247",-275")

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,

Harry Greatorex (Queen's University Belfast)


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