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SOLAR FLARES: Emerging sunspot complex 1195-1196 is crackling with M-and C-class solar flares. John Stetson and students in South Portland, Maine, caught one of them in this snapshot taken April 21st at 1500 UT:

“Big sunspot 1193 was an attractive target,” says Stetson, “but the real action was taking place around the sun’s southeastern limb.” Indeed, that is where readers with solar telescopes should point their optics. AR1195-1196 is growing in complexity and more flares could be in the offing.