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OUR attention having been directed for some days past towards a spot of unusual size upon the sun's disk, we were not by any means surprised to observe, as doubtless many of your readers elsewhere also did, an aurora of great beauty on Saturday night last; nor was our anticipation of seeing a magnetic disturbance portrayed upon the magnetograph records disappointed in the morning, for when the sheets were changed and the photographs developed, we saw that perturbations more violent than any which had been recorded at Kew for the past ten years had been in progress since about 5.45 a.m. of February 13.
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WHIPPLE, G. A Magnetic Disturbance. Nature 45, 364–365 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045364d0
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