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"... two patches of intensely white and bright light broke out, in the positions indicated in the appended diagram by the letters A and B, and of the forms of the spaces left white. (...) The last traces were at C and D, the patches having traveled considerably from their first position and vanishing as two rapidly fading dots of white light." ("Description of a Singular Appearance seen in the Sun on September 1, 1859", Richard Carrington, MNRAS 20, 13-15, 1859)