Dear RHESSI Collaborators,
NOAA 0808 continues to decay within the leading
and trailing portions. The large delta configuration
located in the central penumbra has lost umbral area and
simplifying with its magnetic inversion line slowly
becoming more N-S instead of its former more
complex E-W orientation. The most noteworthy event
since the last message was an M4.4 at 09/16/01:49 UT.
0808 is still a large, magnetically complex beta-gamma-delta
region with the potential to produce another major flare in
the next few days.
The position of NOAA 0808 on September 16 at 12:30 UT:
S11W29 (Solar X =456", Solar Y = -284")
See http://www.solarmonitor.org/ for images and additional information and
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/max_millennium/ops/observing.shtml for a
description of the current Max Millennium Observing Plan.
Regards,
Bill Marquette
Helio Research