Dear Collaborators,

Solar activity has been at a low-to-moderate level. The target region NOAA 14549 has produced several C class flares since the last message, with the largest being a C8.0 flare at 12:49 UT yesterday (10/7).

The C8.0 event was produced by the trailing (Eastern) group of sunspots, but this area started to fall apart in the last 24 hours. On the other hand, the leading group of sunspots had new flux emergence added new sunspots of positive polarity, reinforcing a delta configuration. Today we will continue to observe NOAA 14549, at the area of leading sunspots, expecting C to low-M class activities.

The position of the target in NOAA 14549 on 8-October-2026 at 15:30 UT is: N08W24 (399", 45").

See http://www.SolarMonitor.org and the newer version https://solmon.dias.ie for images and other information.

Regards, Aki Takeda (Montana State University) --