FIRST SOLAR FLARE OF CYCLE 25!
Richard Canfield
richard.canfield at montana.edu
Thu Apr 12 10:29:07 MDT 2018
FIRST SOLAR FLARE OF CYCLE 25!
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On Tuesday "Mr. SolarSoft", Sam Freeland, discovered and documented
the first solar flare of Cycle 25:
http://sdowww.lmsal.com/sdomedia/ssw/media/ssw/ssw_client/data/ssw_service_180409_152748_17806_2/www/
According to Millennium Chief Observer Bill Marquette:
The southern hemisphere region located at S31E07 on 4/9/17:30 UT
had, for a brief time, a small reversed polarity C-type/beta sunspot
group and Sam reported that tiny A2.5 event at 4/9/12:57 UT. So,
the first noteworthy region of Cycle 25 complete with a beta sunspot
group and the first tiny flare event of the new cycle.
Bill also notes:
I made it (lived long enough) to see the beginning of another
solar cycle! This is the 5th one! I started at the University of
Michigan's McMath-Hulbert Solar Observatory in 1967 during Solar
Cycle 20.
Like Cycle 24, this one may be starting with little overlap between
low-latitude old-cycle regions and high- latitude new-cycle regions.
Kudos, Sam and Bill!
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