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This "torpedo-shaped" beam of light was quite unlike any other celestial object that I have ever seen. The quality of its light, and its occurrence while a great magnetic storm and a bright aurora were in progress, seem to establish its auroral origin. But it differed very widely in appearance from
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group 885 (Greenwich numbering). This group originally had formed on the disc on
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November 11 and 26. He pointed out that this synchronised "with the entire passage across the visible disc" of
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