Dear RHESSI Collaborators,

NOAA region 11401 has maintained a beta-gamma/E-type sunspot group classification while growing in both spot area and number of spots. This region has significantly mixed flux around its trailing spots, but neighbouring region NOAA 11402 was the source of the M3.2 flare on 19-Jan-2012 at 13:44 UT. Today's target is primarily NOAA 11401, due to the increased flux mixing and complexity. However, observers are encouraged to include NOAA 11402 in the field-of-view if at all possible. Further C-class activity is expected, with a chance of an M-class event. A remote chance exists for a low X-class flare in the next 24 hours if the trailing spots of 11401 undergo flux emergence.

The position of NOAA 11401 on 20-Jan-2012 at 11:00 UT is:

N18E07, ( -113", 382" )

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 (Trinity College Dublin)