Dear Collaborators,

Solar activity is at a low-to-moderate level. Target region NOAA 13729 has now rotated up to the South West limb and although it was classified as an alpha/H-type sunspot group this designation will be hampered by foreshortening effects. This region produced only one flare in the period, a C7.2 on 7-Jul-2024 at 01:56 UT. NOAA 13738 (a beta-gamma/E-type group) has grown in sunspot area and number of spots since the last message to become the most magnetically complex region on the disk. NOAA 13738 has been the most flare-productive region in the period with 6 C-class flares and the only M-class flare - an M1.0 on 6-Jul-2024 at 22:52 UT. NOAA 13738 becomes the new target region. More C-class activity is expected in the next 24 hours, with a good chance for more M-class activity.

The position of NOAA 13738 on 7-Jul-2024 at 15:30 UT is:

S09E49 , ( -705", -186" )

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)