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Clue from people AD 1278 Korean

Red glow in the south, night as bright as day, Korea, 26 March 1278

Goryeosa, via Yau et al. 1995 entry 290: 'A red vapour was seen in the south. The night was as bright as day.'

How it connects

This clue from people supports this hunch Korea's violet glow of 25 October 1279 falls in the window for the 1279 to 1280 radiocarbon jump, and the main paper missed it a year and a half before

This clue from people is a clue for 1279 carbon-14 candidate

This clue from people we read it in Yau, Stephenson and Willis 1995, A catalogue of auroral observations from China, Korea and Japan, 193 BC to AD 1770, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory report RAL-TR-95-073

This clue from people came from this step Gave 1261 (and 1268, 1279) the same scrutiny as 1052