Dear Collaborators,
Solar activity remains high since the last message, due to the flares mainly reported from NOAA 14294. This region produced 7 M class and more than 10 C class flares in the past 24 hours, with the largest being an M3.1 flare at 21:13 UT yesterday(12/8). NOAA 14299 in the Northern hemisphere produced 2 low-M class flares. NOAA 14298, the current Major Flare Watch target has been flare-quiet since the X1.1 event yesterday.
NOAA 14294 added new flux in the Northwest of the largest sunspot (with positive polarity). A train of tiny negative sunspots appeared and that maintains its complex magnetic configuration of a delta type. In the next 24 hours, we will continue the Major Flare Watch campaign with the target switched to NOAA 14294. Additional M-class flares are expected with the chance of events larger than M5.
The position of the target in NOAA 14294 on 9-December-2025 at 16:30 UT is: S14W51 (744", -237").
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, Aki Takeda (Montana State University) --
mmmotd@solar.physics.montana.edu