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Richard Christopher Carrington (26 de mayo de 1826 - 27 de noviembre de 1875) fue un astrónomo aficionado inglés que descubrió la rotación diferencial del Sol mediante observaciones de las manchas solares en 1863.
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Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875) was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential ...
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- Astronomy
- 26 May 1826, Chelsea, London, England
- Solar observations
Richard Christopher Carrington (born May 26, 1826, London, Eng.—died Nov. 27, 1875, Churt, near Farnham, Surrey) was an English astronomer who, by observing the motions of sunspots, discovered the equatorial acceleration of the Sun—i.e., that it rotates faster at the equator than near the poles.
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13 de may. de 2024 · Historia. Àlex Sala. Bautizado así en honor a Richard Carrington, un astrónomo inglés aficionado, este acontecimiento fue la tormenta solar de mayor magnitud registrada en la Tierra en los últimos 500 años.
23 de dic. de 2021 · diciembre 23 2021. Contemporánea Sin comentarios. 3. A principios de septiembre de 1859, el astrónomo inglés Richard Christopher Carrington dibujaba tranquilamente bocetos de manchas solares cuando observó un intenso estallido de luz blanca.
25 de jul. de 2012 · We recount the life and career of Richard Christopher Carrington (1826 – 1875) and explore his pivotal relationship with Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. Carrington was the pre-eminent solar astronomer of the 19th century.
Carrington is primarily remembered for his pioneering work on sunspots. Impressed by Heinrich Schwabe 's 1843 discovery of the sunspot cycle, and appalled by the lack of systematic sunspots observations, Carrington took it upon himself to pick up the subject where Schwabe had left it.
