Carrington, Richard Christopher (1826-75)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3518. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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English amateur astronomer, first person to observe (1859) a solar flare, `two patches of intensely bright and white light', confirmed by R Hodgson and by the correlated appearance of auroras, seen as far south as Cuba, and magnetic disturbances, observed at the Kew Observatory. Carrington noted the connections, but cautioned that `one swallow does not make a summer'. Only about 50 flares have be...

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