Dear RHESSI Collaborators,

The Major Flare Watch campaign will continue for today, despite NOAA regions 11402 and 11401 decaying further. Both regions show signs of fragmentation and have decreased in area, while the primary spots of NOAA 11402 have also lost a significant amount of penumbral coverage since the last message. The primary target is NOAA 11402, due to the extremely proton-rich M8.7 flare it produced on 23-Jan-2012 at 03:38 UT. Observers are again encouraged to include the trailing spots of NOAA 11401 in the field-of-view if at all possible.

The position of NOAA 11402 on 24-Jan-2012 at 10:00 UT is:

N28W41, ( 570", 517" )

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)