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Iwahashi Zenbei’s Sunspot Drawings in 1793 in Japan
Three Japanese sunspot drawings associated with Iwahashi Zenbei (1756 – 1811) are shown here from contemporary manuscripts and woodprint documents with the relevant texts. We reveal the observational date of o...
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Historical Auroras in the 990s: Evidence of Great Magnetic Storms
A significant carbon-14 enhancement has recently been found in tree rings for the year 994, suggesting an extremely strong and brief cosmic ray flux event. The origin of this particular cosmic ray event has no...
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Open AccessEarliest datable records of aurora-like phenomena in the astronomical diaries from Babylonia
The astronomical diaries from Babylonia (ADB) are excellent sources of information of natural phenomena, including astronomical ones, in pre-Christ era because it contains the record of highly continuous and s...
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Open AccessRecords of sunspot and aurora during CE 960–1279 in the Chinese chronicle of the Sòng dynasty
Records of sunspot and aurora observations in pre-telescopic historical documents can provide useful information about solar activity in the past. This is also true for extreme space weather events, as they ma...