Drawing by Valderrama of the Solar Flare (1886) (IMAGE)

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Drawing by Valderrama of the Solar Flare (1886)

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Drawing by Valderrama of the solar flare he observed on 10 September 1886 on a sunspot (with the penumbra shown with hashed lines and the umbra in black). It shows the tadpole-shaped flare. The original document is held at the Library of the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute.

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