MM#003 Major Flare Watch

Dear RHESSI Collaborators,

NOAA 1654 has increased its magnetic complexity during the past 24 hours. 1654 produced 13 C-class events and two M-class events since the last message. The M-class events were an M1.2 at 01/11/09:11 UT and a long-duration M1.0 at 01/11/15:06 UT. 1654 is a large F-type/beta-gamma-delta region. The leading portion of the region has a large amount of opposite polarity plage surrounding the leader sunspot. At this time we are implementing Max Millennium coordinated observing plan #003 (Region Likely To Produce A Major Flare). An isolated M-class event =>M5 is possible in the next 24 hour period.

The position of NOAA 1654 on January 11 at 14:00 UT is: N08E39 (Solar X = -609", Solar Y = 191")

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,

Bill Marquette (Helio Research) Received on Fri Jan 11 2013 - 10:28:58 MST