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In September 1859, the Carrington Event, a major solar storm, occurred just a few months before the solar maximum in 1860. During this event, the number of sunspots increased. Richard Carrington in Redhill, Surrey, United Kingdom, along with other astronomers around the world, observed the number of sunspots increase in August 1859. ....