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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
This is the [http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/%7Eiain/flares150/ sesquicentennial] of Richard Carrington's solar flare of 1859. | |||
He saw it in "white light" as he was measuring sunspots, and the sketch he made (Figure 1) is often displayed. | |||
[[Image:carrington.jpg|250px|thumb|left|'''Figure 1''': The Carrington white-light sketch. The emissions were very bright, of a color resembling Alpha Lyrae, and rapidly variable ("mortifying" in his description). These properties have been confirmed by subsequent observations.]] | |||
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Introduction
This is the sesquicentennial of Richard Carrington's solar flare of 1859. He saw it in "white light" as he was measuring sunspots, and the sketch he made (Figure 1) is often displayed.
