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Dear Collaborators,
Solar activity is at a low-to-moderate level. The target NOAA 12936 continued to evolve its interior spots since the last message, but retained a classification as a beta/E-type sunspot group. The most flare-productive region has been newly numbered NOAA 12940 in the North West quadrant that produced several C-class events including the largest flare of the period (a C8.6 on 1-Feb-2022 at 07:25 UT). Whilst NOAA 12940 is expected to produce more C-class flares and it has the potential for low M-class, NOAA 12936 remains the target of the current Max Millennium coordinated observing plan #003 (Region Likely To Produce A Major Flare) for another 24 hours. This is due to the leading spots of NOAA 12938 (that appear to be showing minor flux emergence) being relatively close to the opposite-polarity and irregularly-shaped main trailing spot of NOAA 12936. The position of NOAA 12936 on 1-Feb-2022 at 20:00 UT is: N16W33 , ( 511", 351" ) 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)
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