Viewing archive of Saturday, 19 December 2009 - Sunspot regions

Sunspot regions

Courtesy of SDO, SOHO (NASA) and the [MDI, AIA, EVE, and/or HMI] consortium.
Sunspot number New regionsBackground fluxMaximum fluxC
43 232 2B1.01C4.273

Sunspot regions

Region 11035

Number of
sunspots
Size Class Magn. Class Spot Location
10 -4 310 100 ESI N30W45

Solar flares on this day

C4.3 C1.31

All times in UTC

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The solar wind speed is currently moderately high (592.25 km/sec.)

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A X4.0 (R3-strong) solar flare peaked at 08:30 UTC this morning. It was of course departing sunspot region 4274 which has been the source of so many solar flares and even geomagnetic storms this past week that provided the fireworks.

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