Selected Examples from Dataset GE-11C: New England Auroral Observations 1720 - 1948


[These are the first few lines and the last few lines of the data set.]

1720    11   28  SALEM               MASSACHUSETTS
[LOV]

1720    12    5  SALEM               MASSACHUSETTS
[LOV]

1728     1    1  PORTLAND            MAINE
*
There was a great light seen in the N.E. in the beginning of winter, which
they say, certainly predicted a very cold winter, which proves true as to
this. [PR] [Note: The microfilm of the journal by Samuel Freeman contains
extracts from the book, "Extracts from the Journals kept by the Rev. Thomas
Smith, ... ," selected by Samuel Freeman, Portland: Thomas Todd & Co., 1821.
The notation for 1/30/1741 is taken directly from the book.]

1728     1   12  SALEM               MASSACHUSETTS
[LOV]

1728    10   13  SALEM               MASSACHUSETTS
[LOV]

1730    11    2  SALEM               MASSACHUSETTS
[LOV]

1730    11    2  CAMBRIDGE           MASSACHUSETTS
[LOV]



1948    12   23  CARIBOU             MAINE
 [monthly summary only]

1948    12   23  CONCORD             NEW HAMPSHIRE
An aurora was observed on the twenty-third, (continued on the twenty-fourth),
a faint, whitish arc, elevation 20 degrees, azimuth 340-015 degrees.

1948    12   24  CARIBOU             MAINE
[monthly summary only]

1948    12   24  NANTUCKET           MASSACHUSETTS
[monthly summary only]

1948    12   25  EASTPORT            MAINE
An aurora was observed on the 25th.

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