Dear Collaborators,
Solar activity is at a very low level. Target NOAA 12924 displayed an increase in magnetic complexity since yesterday's message and was classified as a beta-gamma/E-type sunspot group. However, NOAA 12924 appears to have already decreased to a beta configuration. This region has remained flare quiet while a C1.0 flare occurred on 11-Jan-2022 at 08:18 UT from a location further East than NOAA 12927. The target instead changes to NOAA 12926 that began the UT day classified as a spotless H-alpha plage region. 12926 now has a small leading-polarity spot with a trailing-polarity pore and it appears to be undergoing emergence of an additional bipole to its North. A location close to NOAA 12926 was the source of 3 B-class flares since the last message, the largest being a B7.1 flare on 11-Jan-2022 at 09:14 UT. More B-class flares are expected in the following 24-hour period, with a chance for a low C-class flare if NOAA 12926 continues emerging more flux.
The approximate position of NOAA 12926 on 11-Jan-2022 at 23:30 UT is:
N17W36 , ( 550", 341" )
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)
mmmotd@solar.physics.montana.edu