Solar Storm of 1859 (Carrington Event)
On September 1st and 2nd of 1859 two British astronomers recorded what they called a “white light flare” while observing the sun. Richard C. Carrington and Richard Hodgson observed a flare in the solar photosphere of the sun. On 1 September 1859, Carrington and Richard Hodgson, another English amateur astronomer, independently made the first observations… Read more