7 March 2023
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Dear Collaborators,
NOAA 13234 has now rotated beyond the northwest limb, but was the source of a partially-occulted M5.3 flare at 15:19 UT yesterday, as well as several C-class flares. We shall terminate the Major Flare Watch campaign at this time and the new default target region shall be NOAA 13242 in the northeast quadrant, which has also produced C-level activity as well as an isolated M1.2 flare yesterday. The region is classified as a beta/C-type region and appears to be in decay, but may produce further C-level activity over the next 24 hours. The position of NOAA 13242 on 5-Mar-2023 at 08:30 UT is: N10E34, ( -534", 267" ) 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, Ryan Milligan (Queen's University Belfast)