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.
[End of selections.]