I only follow this marginally, but there have been 6 X-Class flares in the last 24 hours according to :

http://www.maj.com/sun/ and NOAA.

Haven't seen that in the 6 months I've been generally watching and thought some of you may find it interesting.

-- Jon Johnson (narnia4@usa.net), September 13, 1999

Answers

yes- thanx- it is interesting.

-- farmer (hillsidefarm@drbs.net), September 13, 1999.

Jon;

I just checked the NOAA site and I do not see any report of X-Class events. Can you give a link to the site where you saw this report?

http://sec.noaa.gov/today.html

OLAR ACTIVITY FORECAST: SOLAR ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE AT LOW TO MODERATE LEVELS. REGION 8699 MAY PRODUCE M-CLASS FLARES, PARTICULARLY IF ITS PRESENT RATE OF GROWTH CONTINUES. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A MAJOR FLARE FROM THIS REGION.

-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), September 13, 1999.

Also from:

http://www.dxlc.com/solar/

Flares and CMEs

A total of 8 C flares (all in the C1-C2 range) were recorded on September 12, 4 were optically unaccounted while region 8699 was the source of the remaining 4 C flares.

The background x-ray flux is at the class B4 level.

-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), September 13, 1999.

Jon;

There is no supporting data for your claim that there have been 6-X class flares in the last 24 hours.

Can you provide supporting data?

-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), September 13, 1999.

Maybe the X is a typo and he meant C class flares.

-- ~~~ (~~~@~~~.com), September 13, 1999.

For a large list of sun-information and solar flares,go to

http:/www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/ervin1.htm

List at bottom of page.

-- maggie (aaa@aaa.com), September 13, 1999.

I also checked the DX Listeners site, which monitors solar activity. It seems that solar activity is not greatly above what is to be expected...and no M or X class flares.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 13, 1999.