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List of 1859 Great Magnetic Storm Auroral Observations, this list is composed of two closely spaced massive worldwide auroral events. The first began on August 28th, 1859, and the second began on September 2nd, 1859. The 2nd event is known as the Carrington Event, where a white-light solar flare associated with this event was observed by Carrington and Hodgson at separte observatories.

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spase://NASA/Catalog/CarringtonEvent/AuroralSightings

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List of 1859 Great Magnetic Storm Auroral Observations. 2nd event is also known as the Carrington Event.

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spase://NASA/Catalog/CarringtonEvent/AuroralSightings
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List of 1859 Great Magnetic Storm Auroral Observations, this list is composed of two closely spaced massive worldwide auroral events. The first began on August 28th, 1859, and the second began on September 2nd, 1859. The 2nd event is known as the Carrington Event, where a white-light solar flare associated with this event was observed by Carrington and Hodgson at separte observatories.
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2026-02-02 13:10:21Z
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2023-03-28 12:34:56.789
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Only known prior ReleaseDate of the metadata
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2023-08-16 21:22:02
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Updated description, added additional reference, tried to update to 2.6.0 but failed so reverted back to 2.5.0, revised by SAB 20230816
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2026-02-02 13:10:21Z
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Added MetadataRightsList and RightsList(s). Added ResourceType and NamingAuthority. Updated to 2.7.1. Changed http to https in top-level schemaLocation attribute. Fixed version number separator in top-level schemaLocation attribute. ZCB
Description

List of 1859 Great Magnetic Storm Auroral Observations. 2nd event is also known as the Carrington Event.

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1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/James.L.Green
2.CoInvestigator
MetadataContact		spase://SMWG/Person/Scott.Boardsen
InformationURL
Name
Green, J. L. and Boardsen, S. (2006). Duration and extent of the great auroral storm of 1859. Advances in space research : the official journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), 38(2), 130-135.
URL
https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.asr.2005.08.054
Description

This list of observation times and locations was complied for and used in this paper.

InformationURL
Name
Green, J. L. and Boardsen, S., Odenwald, S., Humble, J. and Pazamickas, K. A. (2006). Eyewitness reports of the great auroral storm of 1859. Advances in space research : the official journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), 38(2), 145-154.
URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2005.12.021
Description

Eyewitness reports base upon this database.

InformationURL
Name
GIF Movie of Carrington Event observations in both Hemispheres: Green and Boardsen (2006)
URL
https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/event_lists/carrington_event_1859_auroral_sightings/aurora_both_hemispheres_1859.gif
Description

This list of observation times and locations is used to create the movie. Orange dots visual sightings of aurora, blue dots telegraph stations whose operations where impacted.

InformationURL
Name
GIF Movie of Carrington Event observations folded into Northern Hemisphere: Green and Boardsen (2006)
URL
https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/event_lists/carrington_event_1859_auroral_sightings/aurora_map_to_northern_hemisphere_1859.gif
Description

This list of observation times and locations is used to create the movie. Orange dots visual sightings of aurora, blue dots telegraph stations whose operations where impacted.

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spase://NASA/Catalog/Carrington_Event/Great_Magnetic_Storm_of_1859_List_of_Auroral_Sightings
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spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF
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CC0 1.0 Universal is the Creative Commons license applicable to all publicly available NASA Heliophysics data products
AccessURL
Name
List of Auroral Observations in TXT
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https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/event_lists/carrington_event_1859_auroral_sightings/Great_Magnetic_Storm_of_1859_List_of_Auroral_Sightings.txt
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Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Note
CC0 1.0 Universal is the Creative Commons license applicable to all publicly available NASA Heliophysics data products
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List of Auroral Observations in CSV
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https://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/event_lists/carrington_event_1859_auroral_sightings/Great_Magnetic_Storm_of_1859_List_of_Auroral_Sightings.csv
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CSV
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Aurora
TimeSpan
StartDate
1859-08-28 00:00:00
StopDate
1859-09-04 00:00:00