The official date of the invention of the telescope is considered to be 1607, when the Dutch master John Lippersgey demonstrated his invention in The Hague. Although all these tales are more than controversial, on their basis, 1610 is considered the year of the beginning of the "astronomical era" - that is, the time when people began to conduct some more or less instrumental observations of the Sun, planets and stars.
In 1611, Christoph Scheiner designed a so-called helioscope to observe sunspots on the Sun. From the moment of its creation, astronomers began to observe solar activity - more precisely, just discovered sunspots. And today, when astronomers study the solar cycles, they can only rely on documentary evidence until 1610.
All these "supports" and dating sucked out of the finger are also more than doubtful, since, for example, a manuscript of the so-called "Chronicles of John of Worcester" - a British chronicler who lived, as it is stated in the 11th century, was lying around in museums. And there, among the pictures of local kings and saints, there is a drawing of spots on the Sun:
However, the official astronomers do not bother with all this and count the time, as they say in their books. But this is not the main thing.
The main thing is that in the summer of 2019, a group of researchers from Osaka University, Japan, decided to dig a little deeper than 1610 and try to look at the Babylonian texts on this topic, for which they went through all the available photographs of clay tablets from the British Museum.
And although, as we all know perfectly well, experts cleaned these plates well and removed the extra ones, the Japanese dug something very, very strange there:
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On these tablets are recorded the observations of astrologers, according to which at the time of writing the text they observe the "red glow of the whole sky", "red sky" and "red clouds".
The official dating of the tablets is 680 - 650. BC. The date of publication of the Japanese study in the Astrophysical Journal Letters is October 7.
Since the "red sky" in the region of Iraq is something new, the Japanese were very excited about their discovery and see in it auroras at these latitudes, which are associated with the unusual activity of the Sun. However, for any normal person, this interpretation raises great doubts, since:
a) Auroras over Iraq are not and were not observed even during the "Carrington Event" - the magnetic storm of 1859, which was the strongest ever recorded and even burned the telegraphs;
b) Aurora usually glows with a characteristic bright green color and red is there only as an impurity:
Proceeding from this, if the Babylonians observed the northern lights from their area of residence, then at that moment they lived then at the latitudes of Europe and the tablets are not talking about a "solar flare", but about the shift of the North Pole, which moved Iraq exactly to where he is now.
Such a catastrophic lithospheric action should have been accompanied by tsunamis and earthquakes, which would not have left stone upon stone from Ancient Greece, Babylon, China, Egypt and the civilizations of Mesoamerica. However, in their chronicles there is nothing about the tsunami of 680 - 650. BC. Not written. And for some reason there is nothing about the red aurors, which is strange and makes you think again and again that these chronicles have been cleaned up.
The threefold explanation of the red sky is the appearance in the sky of a red star or a red planet, which the Babylonians were also the first to write about and which we can sometimes also see now thanks to the worldwide network of webcams (Camera ao vivo - Praia do Itararé - São Vicente):
We do not know which of the explanations is more correct, but on the given camera the “halo”, starting from 2016, was observed at least three times. Perhaps somehow the chemtrails will dissipate and the Brazilians will lay out everything for the fourth time, so we are following the development of events.