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)