Dear RHESSI Collaborators,
Solar activity is at low-to-moderate levels. NOAA 11696 produced no flares in the past 24 hours. This region has increased in number of spots, while maintaining spot area and a beta-gamma/E-type sunspot group classification by NOAA. However, mixed-polarity magnetic flux in the intermediate portion of NOAA 11696 has decreased in magnitude over the past 12 hours. NOAA 11698 has grown in both spot area and number of spots as it approaches the limb, and appears quite bright in chromospheric UV emission. This region has been reclassified by NOAA as a beta/E-type sunspot group, and has continued to produce low C-class events (the largest being a C2.8 flare on 18-Mar-2013 at 03:15 UT). Further low C-class activity is likely, with a small chance for an isolated high C-/low M-class event.
The position of NOAA 11698 on 18-Mar-2013 at 14:00 UT is:
S19W80, ( 897", -291" )
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)
mmmotd@solar.physics.montana.edu